Leah Hager Cohen

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Leah Hager Cohen


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Leah Hager Cohen has written four non-fiction books, including Train Go Sorry and Glass, Paper, Beans, and four novels, including House Lights and The Grief of Others.

She serves as the Jenks Chair in Contemporary American Letters at the College of the Holy Cross, and teaches in the Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review.

Average rating: 3.46 · 9,797 ratings · 1,541 reviews · 24 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Grief of Others

3.34 avg rating — 2,970 ratings — published 2011 — 29 editions
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Strangers and Cousins

3.35 avg rating — 2,545 ratings — published 2019 — 8 editions
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Train Go Sorry: Inside a De...

3.91 avg rating — 1,440 ratings — published 1994 — 11 editions
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No Book but the World

3.37 avg rating — 924 ratings — published 2014 — 16 editions
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Heart, You Bully, You Punk

3.42 avg rating — 639 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions
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I Don't Know: In Praise of ...

3.46 avg rating — 375 ratings — published 2013 — 16 editions
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House Lights

3.25 avg rating — 351 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions
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To & Fro

4.07 avg rating — 147 ratings2 editions
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Glass, Paper, Beans: Revela...

3.74 avg rating — 159 ratings — published 1997 — 5 editions
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Heat Lightning

3.46 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions
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“There is nowhere morning does not go.”
Leah Hager Cohen, Glass, Paper, Beans: Revelations on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things

“Every sad thing, every loss or hurt really a challenge to love that much more, really just another of beauty's many strongholds.”
Leah Hager Cohen, Heart, You Bully, You Punk

“Increasing pressure on students to subject themselves to ever more tests, whittling themselves down to rows and rows of tight black integers upon a transcript, all ready to goose-step straight into a computer.”
Leah Hager Cohen, Heart, You Bully, You Punk

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