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Hannah Selinger

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Hannah Selinger is a James Beard Award-nominated lifestyle writer and mother of two based in Boxford, MA. Her print and digital work has appeared in the New YorkTimes Magazine, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, Eater, Travel + Leisure, Food & Wine, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and elsewhere. Her 2021 Bon Appétit essay, "In My Childhood Kitchen, I Learned Both Fear and Love," is anthologized in the 2022 Best American Food Writing collection, published by HarperCollins and edited by Sohla El-Waylly. ...more

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Valley of the Moms by Hannah Selinger
"Valley of the Moms is giving Bad Moms energy, but much darker and without the comedy. It's a peek behind the curtain of an affluent community where parents will do almost anything to give their children an advantage, no matter the cost.

The story open" Read more of this review »
Valley of the Moms by Hannah Selinger
"This had so many topics that I love. The PTO, long-term friendships, secrets, murder, and digging into the past to uncover just what is going on. A mom that wants everyone treated as equal and have the same opportunities. Is that so hard to ask? It i" Read more of this review »
Valley of the Moms by Hannah Selinger
"A book compared to Stepford Wives and Big Little Lies leaves a lot of high expectations for me since I loved those novels but this one did not disappoint. Anna moves to a small town filled with mean moms who shun her for not marching to the orders of" Read more of this review »
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Valley of the Moms by Hannah Selinger
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Big Little Lies is a great comp for this dual timeline domestic suspense set in a rich suburb in Hamilton, MA. The story alternates between Anna, a transplant to the community who takes up a fight with the head of the PTO over the "pay to play" s" Read more of this review »
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“Over a decade later, perched on the precipice of an exit, I wasn’t sure if it had been worth it. If your trauma defines you—if it makes you capable of understanding the world differently, or if it gives you something to talk about and write about—is it worth the journey?”
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