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KERRY CLARE is the author of novels Asking for a Friend, Waiting for a Star to Fall and Mitzi Bytes, and editor of The M Word: Conversations About Motherhood. A National Magazine Award-nominated essayist, and editor of Canadian books website 49thShelf.com, she writes about books and reading at her longtime blog, Pickle Me This. She lives in Toronto with her family.

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Average rating: 3.31 · 1,833 ratings · 381 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	Waiting for a Star to Fall: A Novel 3.01 avg rating — 638 ratings — 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
	Mitzi Bytes 3.14 avg rating — 420 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	Asking for a Friend 3.56 avg rating — 350 ratings — 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
	Definitely Thriving 3.56 avg rating — 295 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
	The M Word: Conversations about Motherhood by Kerry Clare (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Heather Birrell (Goodreads Author), Julie Booker 4.17 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	The Journey Prize Stories 30: The Best of Canada's New Writers by Liz Harmer (Goodreads Author) (contributor), Greg Brown, Jess Taylor 3.96 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2018 — 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

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Kerry Clare wrote a new blog post The Valley of the Vengeful Ghosts, by Kim Fu There is something wonderfully inscrutable about Kim Fu’s The Valley of the Vengeful Ghosts, in the way that the metaphors aren’t metaphors. After th Read more of this blog post »
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Kerry Clare and 6 other people liked kasey's review of Definitely Thriving: "Do you ever put off reading a book because you genuinely don’t want it to end? That was how I felt reading this book. In Definitely Thriving, Kerry Clare tells the heartening and hilarious story of Clemence, a woman who definitely does not have it all" Read more of this review »
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Kerry Clare and 5 other people liked Charlene Carr's review of Definitely Thriving: "In many ways this novel was not what I thought it was going to be . . . I'm not sure where I got the idea of what I thought it was (some bit of marketing, probably, which made me think 'I want to read this' without even bothering to look at the back " Read more of this review »
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“In politics, she’d discovered that so few systems worked—but libraries did. The world was not yet wholly bereft of things to believe in.”
― Kerry Clare, Waiting for a Star to Fall

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“And what is family — at its best — but
an assemblage of people with wounds they help each other to heal?”
― Kerry Clare, The M Word: Conversations about Motherhood

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“In politics, she’d discovered that so few systems worked—but libraries did. The world was not yet wholly bereft of things to believe in.”
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