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Judith Kirscht

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Judith Kirscht was born and raised in Chicago, raised her family in Michigan, taught writing at the Universities of Michigan and California, Santa Barbara, before moving to Washington State to devote herself to her first love, writing fiction. She is now celebrating the publication of two novels: NOWHERE ELSE TO GO, about a college town torn apart by the turmoil of the Sixties, and THE INHERITORS, about an ethnically mixed woman whose search for her heritage in an abandonned Chicago mansion threatens her first great love.

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Average rating: 4.29 · 48 ratings · 26 reviews · 9 distinct works

	Home Fires 4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2013 — 3 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
	Hawkins Lane 4.36 avg rating — 14 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
	The Inheritors 4.50 avg rating — 6 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 Camera's Eye 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — 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
	End of the Race 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 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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In my last blog, I wrote about the destructive chaos of the political scene, and relearned that, like the rest of the human species, I don’t tolerate chaos well. Polarization is now trapped at the end of its road—the Right stuck in destruction and the Left in outrage. I simply want to shut it out. […]

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Back to Barbary Lane (Tales of the City Omnibus, #4-6)

by Armistead Maupin

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