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Darcey Steinke


Born
in Oneida, New York, The United States
April 25, 1962

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Genre
Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction


Darcey Steinke is an American author and educator known for her evocative novels and thoughtful nonfiction. She has written five novels, including Up Through the Water, Suicide Blonde, Jesus Saves, Milk, and Sister Golden Hair. She is also the author of the spiritual memoir Easter Everywhere and Flash Count Diary, a meditation on menopause and natural life. Her fiction often explores the intersection of the spiritual and the physical, with two of her novels, Up Through the Water and Jesus Saves, selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Steinke has contributed essays and articles to publications such as The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Vogue, and The Guardian, and co-edited the essay collection Joyful Noise with ...more

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Average rating: 3.5 · 5,286 ratings · 801 reviews · 29 distinct works • Similar authors
Suicide Blonde
3.35 avg rating — 2,097 ratings — published 1992 — 23 editions
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Flash Count Diary: Menopaus...
3.69 avg rating — 1,030 ratings — published 2019 — 12 editions
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Jesus Saves
3.40 avg rating — 652 ratings — published 1997 — 11 editions
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Sister Golden Hair
3.63 avg rating — 494 ratings — published 2014 — 10 editions
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Easter Everywhere
3.42 avg rating — 342 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions
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Milk
3.33 avg rating — 273 ratings — published 2005 — 7 editions
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Up Through the Water
3.64 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 1989 — 6 editions
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This Is the Door: The Body,...
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“The problem with being a modern woman, I thought, as the front door swung wide, is that you have to pretend to be stronger than you are.”
― Darcey Steinke, Suicide Blonde
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“You’ll see, there are a million ways to kill off the soft parts of yourself.”
― Darcey Steinke, Suicide Blonde
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“When you love a woman, you love yourself, and it's terrible really, how it seems perfectly possible to swallow the other. With a man you want to join, you want your ribs to connect like handcuffs. But with a woman if you swallow, she becomes you.”
― Darcey Steinke, Suicide Blonde
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