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Miriam Gershow
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The Local News
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2009
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8 editions
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Closer
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Nine Simple Patterns for Complicated Women
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2010
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And If That Mockingbird Don't Sing: Parenting Stories Gone Speculative
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2022
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Survival Tips: Stories
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| Angels at the Gate is everything you want a college novel to be - dark, atmospheric, with a twisty story and a community of complicated characters. Joseph evokes such a specific time, not only the 1980s, but also the tender, questioning age of her na ...more | |
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| I love an epistolary novel, and this one has it all: an authentic teenage voice, an ingenious structure (each chapter is a stop on the Portland MAX's Blue Line), and a very sweet story involving Jane Eyre, public transit, a prophet, a summer job, a f ...more | |
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“Having a plan softened by spine into the mattress, quelled the rising simmer within me, setting me right in the same way that reading the first question of a dreaded exam or the first page of a new book set me right, those moments when wide-open uncertainty was, if not resolved, at least whittled into something more tangible and concrete.”
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“But this was how I'd always been... finite in my capacity for tolerating simple day-to-day contact. I could handle it just fine, all the way up to the point that I couldn't anymore, as if I existed on a tether, and not a particularly long one, finding myself able to wonder only so far into the territory of another human being before snapping back into myself. ”
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| I loved this book, maybe because I was a teenager in the 1980s. The story was charming (in the best way), believable, and affecting. All of the pushes and pulls at Jacob Wasserman - new friend group, new music, new girlfriend - were pitch perfect. In ...more | |
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| The Island of Last Things imagines a world that is so realistically dystopic, it feels only a very short step or two away from our current reality. With exacting, convincing detail, Sloley tells the story of the world's last zoo on Alcatraz, where we ...more | |
“If ever there was a sentence more quickly imprinted in my consciousness, more oft repeated, one that stood as more of an arbiter against which to judge all else, I do not know it. In the beginning, the repetition was the numb sort, the words impenetrable. Only occasionally did they have the power to stop me midstep as I walked upstairs. Or seize my stomach as I ate. Or clear my head as I attempted to speak.”
― The Local News
― The Local News
“But this was how I'd always been... finite in my capacity for tolerating simple day-to-day contact. I could handle it just fine, all the way up to the point that I couldn't anymore, as if I existed on a tether, and not a particularly long one, finding myself able to wonder only so far into the territory of another human being before snapping back into myself. ”
― The Local News
― The Local News
“Having a plan softened by spine into the mattress, quelled the rising simmer within me, setting me right in the same way that reading the first question of a dreaded exam or the first page of a new book set me right, those moments when wide-open uncertainty was, if not resolved, at least whittled into something more tangible and concrete.”
― The Local News
― The Local News
“If ever there was a sentence more quickly imprinted in my consciousness, more oft repeated, one that stood as more of an arbiter against which to judge all else, I do not know it. In the beginning, the repetition was the numb sort, the words impenetrable. Only occasionally did they have the power to stop me midstep as I walked upstairs. Or seize my stomach as I ate. Or clear my head as I attempted to speak.”
― The Local News
― The Local News
“But this was how I'd always been... finite in my capacity for tolerating simple day-to-day contact. I could handle it just fine, all the way up to the point that I couldn't anymore, as if I existed on a tether, and not a particularly long one, finding myself able to wonder only so far into the territory of another human being before snapping back into myself. ”
― The Local News
― The Local News
“Having a plan softened by spine into the mattress, quelled the rising simmer within me, setting me right in the same way that reading the first question of a dreaded exam or the first page of a new book set me right, those moments when wide-open uncertainty was, if not resolved, at least whittled into something more tangible and concrete.”
― The Local News
― The Local News
