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Karen Winn

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Born
in New Jersey, The United States
January 13

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Karen is the author of two novels: The Society and Our Little World, published by Dutton/ Penguin Random House. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where she may or may not have belonged to a secret society. Karen obtained her MFA from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Writing is her first love and second career; she previously worked as a nurse and a nurse practitioner. Originally from New Jersey, Karen now lives in the charming Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston with her husband, two children, and their 100-pound bernedoodle.

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“That was the thing with us, always the thing. We were sisters. Our fights were Cold War epic. When she hugged me—and meant it—it felt like an invitation to a secret society. When she judged me, it was a Supreme Court ruling. We were hot and cold, and both at once. Sin and virtue, and virtue and sin. An entire world war occurred within our small, confined existences. Sisters were we.”
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“You live in your house—the house that memories built—surrounded by and defined by your bricks. Some might say trapped within them, even.”
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“Moments in childhood were often like that: too saturated to fully enjoy in real time, their pleasures spiking higher in subsequent recollections, once we had the space to consider them.”
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