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Lucille Guarino

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If you have ever finished a book and immediately wanted to call someone you love, you already understand what Lucille Guarino writes. Her stories live in the tender space where loss and hope share the same breath, where a grandmother's memory and a granddaughter's longing turn out to be the same story, told two generations apart. Readers reach the last page and describe feeling seen. They say they cried. They say they could not stop.

Lucille Guarino is a bestselling and award winning author of emotionally resonant women’s fiction and contemporary family dramas. Her novel Elizabeth's Mountain was a 2024 Finalist for the Hawthorne Prize, a recipient of the 2024 Millennium Book Award, and the 2025 Independent Press Award. Her work has been reco
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Lunch Tales by Lucille Guarino
" I just finished "Lunch Tales" by Lucille Guarino, and it honestly felt like one of those stories that quietly breaks your heart… and then slowly helps it heal 🥺💛. Teagan’s journey hit me deeply — one moment she’s living a normal life, and the next e" Read more of this review »
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"Read it in a weekend. Elizabeth is unforgettable. Amanda earns your trust slowly. The Blue Ridge setting does real work. The ending landed. Five stars.
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"Read it in a weekend. Elizabeth is unforgettable. Amanda earns your trust slowly. The Blue Ridge setting does real work. The ending landed. Five stars.
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Elizabeth's Mountain by Lucille Guarino
"I said I would read one chapter before bed. That was a lie I told myself on a Friday and regretted by Sunday when it was over and I had feelings about a fictional farmhouse in North Carolina"
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Hill's novel transported me to the wild, beautiful Oregon of 1813, thanks to its vivid imagery and authentic feel. Here, I discovered Marie Dorion, part Native Indian and part French Canadian. A warrior. A survivor. A mother determined to protect her ...more
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Following her husband’s death from a car accident, Beth’s world is turned upside down, revealing a reality far different from what she thought she knew. It would be hard enough if grieving were all she had to endure, but when the nefarious activities ...more
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“Nana once told me that sometimes things happen for reasons we can’t understand while we are living it. Only time can give us perspective.”
Lucille Guarino, Elizabeth's Mountain

“When you are one with your true spirit, only then can you thrive,” Joe said. “My version may be a little different from yours, but often, during and after a life-saving surgery, I experience a profound positive energy, leaving me with a sense of total balance and comfort.”
Lucille Guarino, Elizabeth's Mountain

“You hand it all over to fate, with its cruel sense of humor and equally astonishing grace.”
Lucille Guarino, Lunch Tales: Suellen

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