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Christie Hodgen

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Christie Hodgen is the author of Elegies for the Brokenhearted; Hello, I Must Be Going; and A Jeweler’s Eye for Flaw. She has won the AWP Award for Short Fiction and the Pushcart Prize. She teaches at the University of Missouri–Kansas City.

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Average rating: 3.93 · 1,287 ratings · 209 reviews · 10 distinct works • Similar authors

	Elegies for the Brokenhearted 3.98 avg rating — 865 ratings — published 2010 — 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
	Hello, I Must Be Going 3.95 avg rating — 253 ratings — published 2006 — 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
	The History of Baseball 3.08 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	A Jeweler's Eye for Flaw: Stories 4.21 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2002 — 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
	Special Problems 3.62 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Ploughshares Fall 2021 by Ladette Randolph, Leslie Kirk Campbell (Goodreads Author), Afsheen Farhadi (Goodreads Author) 3.85 avg rating — 13 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
	The Southern Review, 48:1: Winter 2012 by The Southern Review, Cara Blue Adams (Editor), Wendy Barker (Contributor) 4.25 avg rating — 8 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
	Boy Meets Girl (AWP Award Series for the Novel) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 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
	Ploughshares Spring 2008 Guest-Edited by B. H. Fairchild by Ploughshares (Goodreads Author), Tony Hoagland, Charles Harper Webb (Goodreads Author) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2008 — 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
	New Letters vol. 86 no. 4 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	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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“This was the lesson we kept learning over and over and over, the lesson our mother was best capable of teaching us. Love—whatever else it might or might not be—was fleeting. Love stormed into your life and occupied it, it took over every corner of your soul, made itself comfortable, made itself wanted, then treasured, then necessary, love did all of this and then it did next the only thing it had left to do, it retreated, it vanished, it left no trace of itself. Love was horrifying.”
― Christie Hodgen

tags: elegies-for-the-brokenhearted, love, sad, true

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“I knew now that the trouble with the dead wasn't that they overwhelmed you, that they haunted you and stifled you with memories. The trouble with the dead was that they packed up and left you, and there was nothing you could do to bring them back.”
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“Something was broken in me, but it wasn't so easy to recognise. I couldn't explain it. I couldn't say to my mother and Teddy, "Sometimes my right mind doesn't work, and I have to use my left." There was no way for them to reproduce my injury and understand what was happening. Even if they could, I had the feeling they'd never stick with it. I had the feeling they'd give up before we finished breakfast.”
― Christie Hodgen, Hello, I Must Be Going

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