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Joan Leegant


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Joan Leegant's first book of stories, An Hour in Paradise: Stories, won the 2003 PEN/New England Book Award and the Edward Lewis Wallant Award, and was a Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick. She is also the author of a novel, Wherever You Go. Her prize-winning fiction has appeared in over two dozen literary magazines and anthologies. Formerly an attorney, she has taught at Harvard, Oklahoma State, and Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle where she was also the writer-in-residence at Hugo House. For five years she was the visiting writer at Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv where she also spoke at Israeli schools on American literature and culture under the auspices of the U.S. Emb ...more

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Average rating: 3.7 · 558 ratings · 113 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors
Wherever You Go
3.56 avg rating — 425 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions
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Displaced Persons: Stories
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An Hour in Paradise: Stories
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“Who could live happily without it, a garlicless life?”

-from “The Diviners of Desire: A Modern Fable”
― Joan Leegant, An Hour in Paradise: Stories
tags: garlic, humor, love
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