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Jennifer Jenkins

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Jennifer Jenkins has written for Hippocampus Magazine, NonBinary Review, Up North Lit, Canopy Review, Parentheses Journal, and others. She earned two Glimmer Train Fiction Award honorable mentions and a nomination for a PEN America Short Story Award. She has also worked in the theater, with Manhattan Theatre Club, Sondheim’s Young Playwrights, and the PBS series Great Performances.

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Average rating: 4.55 · 11 ratings · 3 reviews · 1 distinct work

American Bourbon

4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions

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Circe

by Madeline Miller (Goodreads Author)

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Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family

by Robert Kolker (Goodreads Author)

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Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

by Natasha Trethewey

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likely to cause tears in a good way The relationships are everything in this book; also, bad guys are questionable. Best one I’ve read in a long time.
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Hard Work! I was surprised to learn all that Ina Garten fought her way through to make her luck happen. She deserves it all.
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Jennifer Jenkins rated a book it was amazing True Biz by Sara Nović (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Great book for everyone Good story and characters; I appreciated the many differences between them. The only flaw is personal which is that as a hearing person it was slightly hard to follow the dialogue in some setups BUT this should stop no one fro ...more
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Fantastic In the purest sense of the word. The creation of an alternate universe is compelling; don’t we all want to live in this world, sometimes or forever?
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Jennifer Jenkins rated a book it was amazing Familiaris by David Wroblewski	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
So after a re-read of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, I said to my bookies, "whatever happened to David Wroblewski?" We all had a ponder on this, as it was one of the books we read with much respect and without irony, something unusual for us. The next ...more
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One of the best books of 2024. Recommended by a trusted friend, and then I wished I were friends with the real-life Martha Ballard. It's a story of the rights that women fought for not too long ago, and the voice of the woman who never remained quiet ...more
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