Jean Thompson's Blog

The Midwest Independent Booksellers Association have named A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl as one of their Midwest Connections November picks. Read More

Jean is interviewed and A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl is reviewed in the Northwest Indiana Times. Read the interview here.

Both Time.com and LitHub.com named A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl as one of their Books to Read in October picks. Time called the novel "thoughtful" and LitHub says the characters are "so real it feels as if you’re not even reading, but witnessing."

Read More at Time.com

Read More at LitHub.com

Jean Thompson will read from her new novel at the Carmel Clay Public Library Fundraiser, Ritz Charles Event Center, Carmel, IN, October 18 and 19.

Jean Thompson will read from her new novel and will be in conversation with Beth Finke at Women and Children First Books, 5233 N. Clark, Chicago, IL, October 11 at 7 pm.

Jean Thompson will read from her new novel at Heartland Fall Forum, Renaissance Minneapolis Hotel, Minneapolis, MN on October 4, 2018.

Jean Thompson review's Malinda McCollum's short story collection The Surprising Place in the New York Times. Read the Review.

Enter for a chance to get an advance copy of Jean's new novel, A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl at Goodreads. Find Out More.

Jean was interviewed for Book Club Babble about her latest novel, She Poured Out Her Heart. Read the interview.

Jean's essay on the end of her 2001 Saturn, "All Things Come to an End. Even My 2001 Saturn" appeared in the March 20, 2016, edition of the New York Times.