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Tiphanie Yanique is the author of How to Escape from a Leper Colony. She has won the Boston Review Prize in Fiction, a Pushcart Prize a Fulbright in Creative Writing and an Academy of American Poet's Prize. Her work has also appeared in Callaloo, Transition Magazine, American Short Fiction, & the London Magazine. She is an assistant professor of creative writing & Caribbean Literature at Drew University. The Boston Globe listed her as one of sixteen cultural figures to watch out for in 2010." ...more

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Average rating: 3.45 · 7,896 ratings · 1,227 reviews · 19 distinct works • Similar authors

	Land of Love and Drowning 3.37 avg rating — 5,382 ratings — published 2014	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
	Monster in the Middle 3.18 avg rating — 1,135 ratings — published 2021 — 7 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
	How to Escape from a Leper Colony 3.92 avg rating — 479 ratings — published 2010 — 10 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
	Wife 4.05 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	God's Caravan 3.14 avg rating — 14 ratings	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
	I Am the Virgin Islands by Tiphanie Yanique (Goodreads Author), Tiphanie Yanique (Goodreads Author) 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	The Saving Work 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2007	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
	Portal 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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
	Land of Love and Drowning: Library Edition by Tiphanie Yanique (Goodreads Author), Cherise Boothe (Narrator), Korey Jackson (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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
	Virgin Islands Noir by Tiphanie Yanique (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Richard Georges (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2026 — 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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“Running, you should know, is a kind of stillness.”
― Tiphanie Yanique, How to Escape from a Leper Colony

tags: running-away, travel

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“The idea that people who guarded you could also be the people that you needed guarding from was nothing anyone should have to learn.”
― Tiphanie Yanique, Land of Love and Drowning

tags: life-lesson

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“Family will always kill you -- some bit by bit, others all at once. It is the love that does it.”
― Tiphanie Yanique, Land of Love and Drowning

tags: death, family, love

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What should we read for the inaugural Graywolf Press Book Club? The winning book will be announced on April 14th and the first Graywolf Press Book Club will begin April 15th!

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How to Escape from a Leper Colony: A Novella and Stories by Tiphanie Yanique

7 votes 46.7%

Your Presence Is Requested at Suvanto: A Novel by Maile Chapman

3 votes 20.0%

Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir by Ander Monson

3 votes 20.0%

Ghosts of Wyoming: Stories by Alyson Hagy

1 vote 6.7%

Obabakoak by Bernardo Atxaga

1 vote 6.7%

15 total votes

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