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Laura Buchwald

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Laura Buchwald is a New York City-based writer and editor who has spent a lot of time in New Orleans, where part of her first book, The Coat Check Girl, takes place. The book is the first in a trilogy and addresses themes of grief, found family, and overcoming the elements of our past that continue to haunt us, literally and metaphorically. Laura's strong belief in an afterlife—along with a healthy dose of questioning its existence—is part of what inspired the series.

The second installment, The Book of Reservations, out December 9, 2025, addresses the same themes from a different perspective; where once the protagonist feared her ability to connect with the spirit world, in book two she comes to embrace it and see it as the gift it potentia ...more

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Average rating: 4.34 · 132 ratings · 70 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Coat Check Girl (The Ghost Table Trilogy Book 1) 4.34 avg rating — 130 ratings — 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
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Laura Buchwald and 1 other person liked Kathy's review of The Coat Check Girl (The Ghost Table Trilogy Book 1): "What can I say besides I loved this book!! The characters, the world building-I could visualize all of it. And I appreciate a read that induces a sentimental tear or two at the end. Definitely hard to put down and finished in less than twenty four ho" Read more of this review »
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Laura Buchwald and 2 other people liked Erika's review of The Coat Check Girl (The Ghost Table Trilogy Book 1): "As a NYer of the 90s, I can’t say enough how much I loved this book! The characters are well written and the story was engaging. The nostalgia brought me back to a wonderful time of my life and I truly hated for the story to end. Good thing the autho" Read more of this review »
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Carlene O'Connor has crafted a compelling and well-researched mystery that is about far more than its plot. It's about how we are all shaped by our pasts and our families of origin, how it is only in accepting these pasts that we can move out of fals ...more
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Laura Buchwald liked Elizabeth Fiebach's review of The Coat Check Girl (The Ghost Table Trilogy Book 1): "Mystical, insightful, whimsical. Delightful. Love notes to Manhattan and NOLA. And a master class in phases of grief. Made we want to run out to the nearest card reader! The Coat Check Girl re-inspired my belief that relationships with our late belove" Read more of this review »
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