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The Optimistic Decade
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2018
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10 editions
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Gut Instincts: Dispatches from the Wide Open Space Between Sickness and Health
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2014
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3 editions
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The Emilys
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expected publication
2026
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3 editions
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"Ugh. I am so sad that this book is over. What a beautiful debut novel - Erin’s writing caught me in her web immediately. I loved reading about queer families from a queer writer - so relatable and nuanced as a gay reader. A perfect reminder in these "
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“One had to at all times remain free of the delusion that anybody was who you believed them to be.”
― The Optimistic Decade
― The Optimistic Decade
“They were also, at times, rude and contemptuous and know-it-alls, copping a rhetorical style that was beginning to characterize communication all the wide web over.”
― Gut Instincts: Dispatches from the Wide Open Space Between Sickness and Health
― Gut Instincts: Dispatches from the Wide Open Space Between Sickness and Health
“Over the years, Caleb had learned that if you invited them the right way, people generally acted how you wanted them to act. If you made sure to invite them into something grand and purposeful. If you told a compelling and urgent story into which they could enter. If you gave them a role, a small but crucial part.”
― Optimistic Decade
― Optimistic Decade
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