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Katherine Shonk

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KATHERINE SHONK is the author of the novel HAPPY NOW? and the story collection THE RED PASSPORT, a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year. Her writing has appeared in Best American Short Stories, McSweeney's, Tin House, and elsewhere. She works as an editor for Harvard University and lives in Chicago with her husband and daughter. ...more

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Now in paperback!

HAPPY NOW? is now out in paperback from Picador, complete with a Reading Group Guide. I will be reading from the book at:

April 20, 2011
7:00pm
Reading
The Book Stall
811 Elm St.
Winnetka
www.thebookstall.com

May 18, 2011
7:00pm
Local Author Night
The Book Cellar
4736 N. Lincoln Ave.
Chicago
www.bookcellarinc.com

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	One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, H.T. Willetts (Translation), Katherine Shonk (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.98 avg rating — 127,731 ratings — published 1962 — 29 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 Best American Short Stories 2001 by Barbara Kingsolver (Editor), Katrina Kenison (Goodreads Author) (Series Editor), Rick Bass (Author and narrator) 3.83 avg rating — 1,117 ratings — published 2001 — 7 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
	Happy Now? 3.33 avg rating — 321 ratings — published 2010 — 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
	The Red Passport: Stories 3.56 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 2003 — 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
	Bestial Noise: The Tin House Fiction Reader by Win McCormack (Editor), Dorothy Allison (Contributor), Amy Hempel (Contributor) 3.88 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2003	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
	We Got This: Solo Mom Stories of Grit, Heart, and Humor by Marika Lindholm (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Cheryl Dumesnil (Editor), Katherine Shonk (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 46 ratings — 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
	"You Can't Enlarge the Pie" by Max H. Bazerman (Goodreads Author), Katherine Shonk (Goodreads Author), Jonathan Baron 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2001 — 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
	Happy Now?: A Novel 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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