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Monica Hesse

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Monica Hesse is the national bestselling author of the true crime love story American Fire, and the historical mystery novel Girl in the Blue Coat, which has been translated into a dozen languages and won the 2017 Edgar award in the Young Adult category. She is a feature writer for the Washington Post, where she has been a winner of the Society for Feature Journalism's Narrative Storytelling award, and a finalist for a Livingston Award and a James Beard Award. Monica lives in Maryland. with her husband and a brainiac dog.
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Average rating: 4.0 · 87,306 ratings · 10,088 reviews · 10 distinct works • Similar authors

	Girl in the Blue Coat 4.03 avg rating — 45,685 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	They Went Left 4.22 avg rating — 17,333 ratings — published 2020 — 30 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
	American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land 3.79 avg rating — 16,593 ratings — published 2017 — 12 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 War Outside 3.75 avg rating — 5,949 ratings — published 2018 — 19 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 Brightwood Code 3.77 avg rating — 1,490 ratings — published 2024 — 5 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
	Stray (Stray, #1) 3.86 avg rating — 209 ratings — published 2013 — 8 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
	Burn (Stray, #2) 3.95 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2014 — 6 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
	Nom de code, Hello Girls by Monica Hesse (Goodreads Author), Anne Delcourt (Translator) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	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
	Monica Hesse Collection 0.00 avg rating — 0 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
	Nom de code Hello girls - Ses secrets l'ont suivie après la guerre - Young Adult by Monica Hesse (Goodreads Author), Anne Delcourt (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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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“My heart will still ache sometimes. Maybe more often than not. I think it's possible to be healed without feeling whole.”
― Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat

tags: healing, life

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“Maybe we can't barter our feelings away, trading good deeds for bad ones and expecting to become whole.”
― Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat

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“But when it comes down to it, we all die alone.”
― Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat

tags: death, death-and-dying, loss

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Polls

July BoTM "Color in Title" ~ 1st Poll
Top 5 books move onto final poll

Girl in the Blue Coat

by Monica Hesse

6 votes, 12.0%

Half of a Yellow Sun

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

5 votes, 10.0%

A Spool of Blue Thread

by Anne Tyler

5 votes, 10.0%

The Peach Keeper

by Sarah Addison Allen

5 votes, 10.0%

Written in Red

by Anne Bishop

5 votes, 10.0%

Black Out

by Lisa Unger

4 votes, 8.0%

White Teeth

by Zadie Smith

4 votes, 8.0%

My Name Is Venus Black

by Heather Lloyd

4 votes, 8.0%

Sadness Is a White Bird

by Moriel Rothman-Zecher

3 votes, 6.0%

The Black Velvet Coat

by Jill G. Hall

2 votes, 4.0%

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

2 votes, 4.0%

Red Rising

by Pierce Brown

2 votes, 4.0%

Like Water for Chocolate

by Laura Esquivel

2 votes, 4.0%

Long Black Veil

by Jennifer Finney Boylan

1 vote, 2.0%

50 total votes

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