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Gabriella Burnham

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Gabriella Burnham is the author of Wait and It Is Wood, It Is Stone, which was named a best book of the year by Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, Publisher’s Weekly, and Good Housekeeping magazines. She holds an MFA in creative writing from St. Joseph’s College and has been awarded fellowships to MacDowell, where she was named a Harris Center Fellow, and Yaddo. Her nonfiction writing has appeared in Harper’s Bazaar. She and her partner live in Brooklyn with their two rescue cats, Galleta and Franz.

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It Is Wood, It Is Stone

3.43 avg rating — 2,466 ratings — published 2020 — 6 editions
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3.26 avg rating — 1,295 ratings — published 2024 — 5 editions
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"I feel privileged to have received an advance copy of this book, Wait is a captivating and spellbinding novel, and I have read it twice. First for the story, I needed to find out quickly what was going to happen. The second time I read it slowly and " Read more of this review »
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"A coming-of-age story about two sisters navigating the world after their mother is deported. I thought this was a beautiful novel. I enjoyed Gabriella Burnham’s first novel It is wood, it is stone. I couldn't wait to get my hands on this one. I look " Read more of this review »
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""Wait" is a deft melange of coming-of-age and you-can't-go-home-again tropes with the extra added layers of familial deportation and class disparity. Burnham never gets too heavy handed with any of these potentially polemic issues and instead focuses" Read more of this review »
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“I had always considered myself a writer. But is a writer still a writer if she doesn’t write?” I trailed off, unsure of what I was trying to say.”
Gabriella Burnham, It Is Wood, It Is Stone

“She smiled. “Now you’re sitting in a bar in Jardins, wearing a wet suit, drinking with a stranger. I understand the shape you’ve taken.” She clinked her glass on mine. “I understand this shape.”
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