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Jan Ellison is the USA Today bestselling author of the debut novel, A Small Indiscretion, which was a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year. A graduate of Stanford, Jan left college for a year at nineteen to study French in Paris, work in an office in London, and try her hand at writing. Twenty years later, her notebooks from that year became the germ of A Small Indiscretion.

Jan spent two years in Hawaii, Australia and Southeast Asia after college. She worked as a waitress and a typist, trekked solo in the Himalayas, took trains across India, and job-hunted, unsuccessfully, in Hong Kong. Then she returned to Silicon Valley and ran marketing for a financial software startup for five years. After the company went public, Jan left to ...more

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	A Small Indiscretion 3.56 avg rating — 8,695 ratings — published 2015 — 16 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 O. Henry Prize Stories 2007 by Laura Furman (Series Editor), Charles D'Ambrosio (Juror), Ursula K. Le Guin (Juror) 3.72 avg rating — 285 ratings — published 2007 — 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
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“Denial, as any addict in recovery will tell you, is not defined as knowing something and pretending you don’t; it is failing to see it at all.”
― Jan Ellison, A Small Indiscretion

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“I suppose unrequited love is the hardest kind to shed because it is not really love at all. It is a half-love, and we are forever stomping around trying to get hold of the other half.”
― Jan Ellison, A Small Indiscretion

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“It was so undignified and unnecessary, the way married people behaved. The indiscriminate airing of grievances, the incessant flinging of blame and complaint. Of course, I had no idea back then what a marriage required. How the resentments and oversights and misunderstandings could pile up, sometimes moving ordinary kindness beyond reach. Love piled up, too, if you were lucky, but it seemed to be locked away in a separate compartment, sometimes unreachable when it was needed most.”
― Jan Ellison, A Small Indiscretion

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Polls

November BOTM: Family Struggle Theme

Top 5 books move on to the second poll

We Need to Talk About Kevin

by Lionel Shriver

20 votes, 27.0%

Mercy

by Jodi Picoult

12 votes, 16.2%

Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

by Beth Hoffman

11 votes, 14.9%

These Is My Words

by Nancy E. Turner

9 votes, 12.2%

Middlesex

by Jeffrey Eugenides

9 votes, 12.2%

Every Last One

by Anna Quindlen

5 votes, 6.8%

A Small Indiscretion

by Jan Ellison

4 votes, 5.4%

Keepsake

by Kristina Riggle

2 votes, 2.7%

The Family Fang

by Kevin Wilson

1 vote, 1.4%

Saving Amelie

by Cathy Gohlke

1 vote, 1.4%

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