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Barb Johnson

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Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

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Barb Johnson's author site: https://barb-johnson.com/

Barb Johnson worked as a carpenter in New Orleans for more than twenty years before writing More of This World or Maybe Another.

She won Glimmer Train's Short Story Award for New Writers and Washington Square's fiction competition. Her work has appeared in such magazines as Guernica, The Southern Review, 52 Stories, and Oxford American, as well as in a number of anthologies, including Don't Quit Your Day Job: Acclaimed Authors and the Jobs They Quit, Voices Rising II: More Stories from the Katrina Narrative Project, and The Booklover's Guide to New Orleans.

Her debut collection of short stories, More of This World or Maybe Another (HarperPerennial, 2009) was an IndieNext pick, a Discover G ...more

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	More of This World or Maybe Another 4.17 avg rating — 488 ratings — published 2009 — 14 editions	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
	St. Luis of Palmyra 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	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
	The Invitation liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	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
	Titty Baby liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	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
	If the Holy Spirit Comes for You liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009 — 3 editions	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
	Killer Heart liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009 — 3 editions	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
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	Frogs In Their Hair: And Other Plagues of Egypt by Barb Johnson (Goodreads Author), Angela Gooliaf (Illustrations) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	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

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“There's real trouble in the world. The kind that can't be fixed. The kind we lie awake keeping vigil against. Love is not trouble. It's all we have to light our days, to bring music to the time we've been given.”
― Barb Johnson, More of This World or Maybe Another

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More of This World or Maybe Another, by Barb Johnson

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Picking Over the Bones, by Judith Ireland

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The Bullet Swallower, by Elizabeth Gonzalez James

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Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings by Randall Kenan

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How Lucky, by Will Leitch

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Farewell: A Memoir of a Texas Childhood, by Horton Foote

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