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Gin Phillips

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Montgomery, Alabama, The United States

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Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Children's

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Gin Phillips is the celebrated author of The Well and the Mine (winner of the 2009 Barnes & Noble Discover Award for Fiction) and Come in and Cover Me (“original and strikingly beautiful” – Elle Magazine). Her recent novel, Fierce Kingdom, was named one of the best books of 2017 by Publishers Weekly, NPR, Amazon, and Kirkus Reviews. Her novels have been named as selections for Indie Next, Book of the Month, and the Junior Library Guild. She lives in Birmingham, Alabama, with her family.

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Average rating: 3.53 · 30,513 ratings · 4,878 reviews · 10 distinct works • Similar authors

	Fierce Kingdom 3.52 avg rating — 24,776 ratings — published 2017 — 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 Well and the Mine by Gin Phillips (Goodreads Author), Fannie Flagg (Introduction) 3.77 avg rating — 3,740 ratings — published 2008 — 23 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
	Family Law 3.08 avg rating — 823 ratings — published 2021 — 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 Hidden Summer 3.64 avg rating — 530 ratings — published 2013 — 9 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
	Come In and Cover Me 3.14 avg rating — 587 ratings — published 2012 — 10 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
	A Little Bit of Spectacular 3.50 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Ruby Falls 4.13 avg rating — 8 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
	Come In and Cover Me: A Novel by Gin Phillips (Goodreads Author), Angela Brazil (Narrator) 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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I love http://Shepherd.com, which is all about authors recommending other authors. I made my own list of favorites–“The Best Novels On Women Who Love Their Job and Don’t Feel Guilty About It”–and it’s such a thrill to see Fierce Kingdom listed among other authors’ faves. It’s a fun concept–books grouped by similar ideas or vibes.… Read more of this blog post »

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“She cannot think of such things and still function, and she has needed to function, and she has never wanted to be one of those women who won't let their children eat raw cookie dough or wander a block down the street without a chaperone, and you have to manage the terror or you can never watch your child walk out the front door. And here they are where death is shoving its bloody snout in their faces, and she has not considered it, not really, because she has some vague idea of what she will unleash if she does, the great gaping chasm that will open up. That is what you do when you have a child, isn't it, open yourself up to unimaginable pain and then try to pretend away the possibilities.”
― Gin Phillips, Fierce Kingdom

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“A considerable part of parenting is pretending moods that you do not entirely feel.”
― Gin Phillips, Fierce Kingdom

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“She doesn’t picture them as Arabic—she has been wondering, of course. But they do not sound like that kind of terrorist. They sound like young, obnoxious white men—aren’t they always young white men?—and she is not sure whether this makes them more or less dangerous than fanatics on a jihad.”
― Gin Phillips, Fierce Kingdom

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What book would you like to read in September?

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

4 votes, 33.3%

The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks

2 votes, 16.7%

Howards End by E.M. Forster

2 votes, 16.7%

Little Bee by Chris Cleave

1 vote, 8.3%

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

1 vote, 8.3%

The Terror by Dan Simmons

1 vote, 8.3%

The Well and the Mine by Gin Phillips

1 vote, 8.3%

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