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Kim Church

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Kim Church is the author of Byrd (Dzanc Books), winner of the Crooks Corner Book Prize, a Chautauqua Prize finalist, and longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the SIBA Book Award.

Her new novel, Lena and Rae, a story of sisterhood set during the deadly textile strikes of the 1920s and 30s, is coming from Dzanc Books in 2027.

Kim's short work has appeared in The Sun Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, Shenandoah, Painted Bride Quarterly, Mississippi Review, The Great Books Foundation Short Story Omnibus, and elsewhere. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she has received fellowships from the North Carolina Arts Council and residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Millay Colony for the Arts, and Vermont Studio Center. Sh
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Average rating: 3.73 · 827 ratings · 153 reviews · 3 distinct worksSimilar authors
Byrd

3.79 avg rating — 743 ratings — published 2014 — 8 editions
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I Am the Light of This World by Michael Parker
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Earl is the most original, imaginative, haunting, heartbreaking character I have come across in years. I can't stop thinking about him. Or humming the Rev. Gary Davis song (Jorma Kaukonen's version, maybe I'll learn to pick it) with this title. Whate ...more
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A Different Sun by Elaine Neil Orr
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Based on the real-life adventures of the first Southern Baptist missionaries to West Africa, A Different Sun is a transporting story of faith, work, love, fidelity, ambition and madness, a valentine to a scorched and shimmering landscape, a nuanced p ...more
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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour by J.D. Salinger
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Rachel to the Rescue by Elinor Lipman
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I hoped for a light, fun read to distract me from the horrors of Trump II. I hoped Rachel would rescue me (a big ask, I know). I hoped the book would be what it calls itself -- witty, funny, intriguing, unexpected. It wasn't. I finished it only becau ...more
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Rachel to the Rescue by Elinor Lipman
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I hoped for a light, fun read to distract me from the horrors of Trump II. I hoped Rachel would rescue me (a big ask, I know). I hoped the book would be what it calls itself -- witty, funny, intriguing, unexpected. It wasn't. I finished it only becau ...more
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Liars by Sarah Manguso
Liars
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I hardly know what to say about this book -- not so much a novel as a thinly fictionalized (as in, names changed) memoir about an educated, accomplished writer who gives up agency in her unhappy marriage and blames her husband. It's clear he was a ba ...more
Not My Type by E. Jean Carroll
"The book is a tell-all of abhorrent actions against a woman by our "fearless" leader and is written in a mostly light-hearted, magazine style. I wouldn't call it well-written but it was surely cathartic for the author to tell her story to the general" Read more of this review »
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Liars by Sarah Manguso
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I hardly know what to say about this book -- not so much a novel as a thinly fictionalized (as in, names changed) memoir about an educated, accomplished writer who gives up agency in her unhappy marriage and blames her husband. It's clear he was a ba ...more
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Byrd by Kim Church
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My book -- of course I have to give it all the stars I can!
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Liars by Sarah Manguso
"i hate men as much as the next literate 20-something woman, but at one point does "the patriarchy is the third member of every heterosexual marriage" become "you married a mean child."

you can tell from page 18 that this guy is a no go, so it cuts dow" Read more of this review »
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“Addie believes in books. They are more interesting than real life and easier to understand. Sometimes you can guess the ending. Things usually work out, and if they don't, you can always tell yourself it was only a book.”
Kim Church, Byrd

“Neither of them thinks of love like they used to, as something to be fallen into, like a bed or a pit. It isn't big and deep and abstract. Love is particulate. It's fine. It accumulates like dust.”
Kim Church, Byrd

“She handles the books tenderly, a glow of utter devotion on here face.”
Kim Church, Byrd

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