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Maya Shanbhag Lang

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Maya Shanbhag Lang is the author of What We Carry: A Memoir, (Random House), a New York Times Editor's Pick and one Amazon's Best Books of 2020. She is also the author of The Sixteenth of June (Scribner), long listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and named a must-read novel by CBS and InStyle Magazine. She has been featured in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, In Style, and others.

Winner of the Neil Shepard Prize in Fiction and the Rona Jaffe Foundation-Bread Loaf Scholarship in Fiction, she was a Finalist for Glimmer Train's Short Story Award for New Writers.

The daughter of Indian immigrants, she lives outside of New York City. Visit her website at www.mayalang.com
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	What We Carry: A Memoir 4.32 avg rating — 4,097 ratings — published 2020 — 8 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 Lonely Stories by Natalie Eve Garrett (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Megan Giddings, Claire Dederer 3.63 avg rating — 1,393 ratings — published 2022 — 4 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 Sixteenth of June 3.46 avg rating — 456 ratings — published 2014 — 15 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
	Redefining Success for a Happier, More Authentic & Fulfilling Life by Alison Wolk Campbell (Goodreads Author), Maya Shanbhag Lang (Goodreads Author) (editor), Hilary Roberts (editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 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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“Maybe at our most maternal, we aren’t mothers at all. We’re daughters, reaching back in time for the mothers we wish we’d had and then finding ourselves.”
― Maya Lang, What We Carry: A Memoir

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“We all spin stories. That's what we do. We want people to see certain things about us and not others. What matters is whether you let others in to the truest story, the one that's the hardest to tell.”
― Maya Lang, The Sixteenth of June

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“How are you holding up?' Stephen had asked in the parking lot, and it had come as a relief. Because even if you don't know the answer, Nora thinks, leaving the foyer, it is nice to be asked.”
― Maya Lang, The Sixteenth of June

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