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Kim van Alkemade

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in New York, NY, The United States

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Fiction, Historical Fiction, Gay and Lesbian

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Kim van Alkemade is a New York Times bestselling author whose work has been translated into eleven languages. After a career teaching writing at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania, she now works at an independent bookstore in upstate New York where she lives with her partner, their rescue dog, and two feisty backyard chickens.

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	Orphan Number Eight 3.72 avg rating — 21,548 ratings — published 2015 — 31 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
	Bachelor Girl 3.65 avg rating — 3,751 ratings — published 2018 — 9 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
	Counting Lost Stars 4.07 avg rating — 1,516 ratings — published 2023 — 11 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 Upstate Dispatch: A Novel – A Sapphic Love Story of Grief, Healing, and Hidden Letters in Upstate New York it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 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
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Kim van Alkemade rated a book it was amazing Pollock's Last Lover: A Novel of Art and Deception – A Multigenerational Story of Women's Ambition and Jackson Pollock's Legacy by Stephen P. Kiernan (Goodreads Author)	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
Written with the unbridled machismo of the era it depicts, this novel drops us into the harrowing last year of in the life of Jackson Pollock, mentally ill alcoholic and artistic genius. We see him through the eyes of his last lover, Ruth, a young wo ...more
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“I was so used to pretending to be something I wasn't, it shocked me to be seen for what I was.”
― Kim van Alkemade, Orphan Number Eight

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“What makes you think I ever got married? Married women work themselves to death, all their money goes to husbands who gamble it away. Why would I ever do that to myself?”
― Kim van Alkemade, Orphan Number Eight

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“Sometimes I ask myself if there’s any limit to the harm people can do to each other.” “No,”
― Kim van Alkemade, Orphan Number Eight

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