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Ann Anderson Evans

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Ann Evans is a writer, linguist, and professor. Twice a wife and once a widow, she’s a mother and grandmother. She has traveled and lived in many countries and speaks six languages.

Her first book, DARING TO DATE AGAIN (SheWrites Press, 2014) won multiple prizes for memoir. Her story, “Precious Love” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Other short stories have been published in Entropy, The Opiate, Pulse, Phantasmagoria, Forge, Under the Sun, Ozone Park Journal, Phoebe, The Raven’s Perch, Words & Images, Pedagogy, and Better Than Starbucks. Ann has appeared on television, radio, and podcasts, with appearances on The Discovery Channel’s Sex in America special, NPR’s Author’s Corner, and many more.

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Average rating: 4.08 · 49 ratings · 18 reviews · 6 distinct works

	Daring to Date Again: A Memoir 3.90 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2014 — 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 Sweet Pain of Being Alive 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings	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 History of Abortion 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2012 — 2 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 Sweet Pain of Being Alive: A Memoir of Love and Death 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 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
	[Daring to Date Again: A Memoir] [By: Evans, Ann Anderson] [November, 2014] by Ann Anderson Evans (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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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The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

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No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering

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Ann Evans rated a book it was amazing Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth	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
After 50 years of procrastination, I have finally read Portnoy’s Complaint. The writerly skill and inspiration of Philip Roth deserved all the awards he got, but surely Portnoy’s Complaint is his masterpiece. I’m not a biologist, but as I have come to ...more
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Ann Evans rated a book really liked it In the Shadow of Silence by Rae Dumont (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
I am sure I am not alone when I say have shared with the protagonist of this book, Eva, the experience of living with a husband experiencing deep depression. The disease itself is one of the protagonists, a subtle, deceptive, deadly enemy. Some of Ev ...more
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Ann Evans rated a book it was amazing Whistler by Ann Patchett	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
This is a tender, subtle, precise account of a phenomenon that has lain hidden in plain sight in American culture for decades if not centuries. Gay men used to, and sometimes still do, marry so they can succeed in business, be accepted in community, ...more
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Ann Evans rated a book really liked it A Terrible Intimacy: Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South by Melvin Patrick Ely	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
When you think about it, isn't it obvious that if human beings share their daily lives, sometimes for their whole life, they will develop deep relationships? This book about life in Prince Edward County, Virginia in the decades before the Civil War, ...more
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Ann Evans rated a book really liked it Literacy: An Introduction to the Ecology of Written Language by David Barton	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
When I started on my M.A. in Linguistics, I didn't expect Literacy would be my favorite class, but it was. In the first session, I was made aware of the many ways in which I am illiterate: I cannot read Chinese, Japanese, Ethiopian, Arabic, and Russi ...more
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Ann Evans rated a book liked it Normal People by Sally Rooney (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
Sally Rooney has a unique style. She wanders through the story, pulling the characters in various directions, few of which are predictable, in the meantime shedding light our versions of friendship, love, loyalty, even patriotism. When you reach the e ...more
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Ann Evans rated a book really liked it Where You Come From by Saša Stanišić (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
My Austrian friend gave me this for Christmas; she's of Croatian/Serbian background. I loved learning where she and her family originally came from. I learned how much fun Communism was in Yugoslavia (now broken into pieces), or I should say, how a k ...more
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Ann Evans rated a book it was amazing The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (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
I finished this book and said, Oh my boy, I'm so sorry this has happened to you. Speaking for myself, I can't get enough of learning in unblinking detail what it is and was to be Black in America. Americans should read this book and also James Baldwi ...more
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