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Susan Scarf Merrell is the author of Shirley: A Novel, which is soon to be major motion picture starring Elisabeth Moss and Michael Stuhlbarg. Other books are the novel A Member of the Family, and The Accidental Bond: How Sibling Connections Influence Adult Relationships. She directs the Southampton Writers Conference, is program director (along with Meg Wolitzer) of the novel-editing program, BookEnds, and teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing & Literature at Stony Brook Southampton. She served as fiction editor of TSR: The Southampton Review. Essays, book reviews and short fiction appear most recently in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Common Online, The Washington Post, and East Magazine.

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Average rating: 3.42 · 1,458 ratings · 296 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Shirley 3.42 avg rating — 1,443 ratings — published 2013 — 12 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
	Accidental Bond: How Sibling Connections Influence Adult Relationships by Susan Scarf Merrell, Susan Merrell (Goodreads Author) 3.38 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1995 — 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
	This Door You Might Not Open by Susan Scarf Merrell, Rachel Pastan (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Fifth Wednesday Journal (Foreword) 3.50 avg rating — 2 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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“I didn't know I was lonely. I didn't know there was another way to be.”
― Susan Scarf Merrell, Shirley

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“Acquire your own sins. This one is mine,”
― Susan Scarf Merrell, Shirley

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“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.”
― Susan Scarf Merrell, Shirley

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April is mystery/thriller month. Poll will be open until Friday, March 7.

The Fury

Alex Michaelides

2 votes, 66.7%

The Shadow of the Wind

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

1 vote, 33.3%

The Manor House

Gilly Macmillan

0 votes, 0.0%

Shirley

Susan Scarf Merrell

0 votes, 0.0%

The Woman in the Window

A.J. Finn

0 votes, 0.0%

3 total votes

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