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Sara Hosey's debut novel, IPHIGENIA MURPHY, about a runaway who starts a new life in a wooded city park, has been called "gritty and unflinching" and named an audible buzzworthy listen. Kirkus Reviews calls her latest YA novel, SUMMER PEOPLE, "a timely mystery exploring multiple complex themes."

Sara's debut short story collection, DIRTY SUBURBIA, traces the experiences of girls and women living in a world that often hates them.
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Sara Hosey I recognized the putrid smell and my fears were confirmed when I entered the kitchen. Yes, mushrooms for dinner.
Sara Hosey Two books I am really looking forward to reading this summer are Liza Nash Taylor's Etiquette for Runaways and Kelly Fordon's short story collection, …moreTwo books I am really looking forward to reading this summer are Liza Nash Taylor's Etiquette for Runaways and Kelly Fordon's short story collection, I Have the Answers.
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Iphigenia Murphy

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Imagining Elsewhere

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Head over to my Twitter (@hoseysara) or Insta (@sarahoseyauthor) to enter to win SIGNED COPIES of "Iphigenia Murphy" as well as Laura Stegman's "Summer of L.U.C.K." All you have to do it like, follow, comment/retweet. See you there!!!
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I haven’t read Winter Light—the book before this one—but now I have to!

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“Me?" I looked up and grinned back. "Nobody loves me. So, I'm doing okay."

"You look a little worn out, if you ask me.”
Sara Hosey, Iphigenia Murphy

“On the couch that was also my bed in the apartment I'd lived in all my life, I sat, sucking my thumb, thinking of the terrible things he'd said to me, using them to ignite a small fire, to get myself warm and moving, to get myself gone.”
Sara Hosey, Iphigenia Murphy

“Turns out, there are some girls nobody looks for. Turns out, I was one of those girls.”
Sara Hosey, Iphigenia Murphy

“Turns out, there are some girls nobody looks for. Turns out, I was one of those girls.”
Sara Hosey, Iphigenia Murphy

“Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.”
Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
Lao Tzu

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
Oscar Wilde

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