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In addition to her upcoming novel Some Bright Nowhere, Ann Packer is the author of three bestselling novels: The Children’s Crusade, Songs Without Words, and The Dive from Clausen’s Pier, which received the Kate Chopin Literary Award among many other prizes and honors. Her short fiction has been published in two collections — Mendocino and Other Stories and Swim Back to Me — and includes stories that appeared in The New Yorker and in the O. Henry Prize Stories anthologies. Ann’s work has been translated into over a dozen languages and published around the world.

Ann was born in Stanford, California, and grew up near Stanford University, where her parents were professors. She attended Yale University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. In 1995 sh ...more

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“How Much Do We Owe People We Love?”
― Ann Packer

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“A broken heart can masquerade as a cold one.”
― Ann Packer, The Children's Crusade

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“It paid barely a living wage, but he stayed with it—gradually and in the end gratefully arriving at the point in life when you understand there are no great changes ahead.”
― Ann Packer

tags: aging, fathers-and-daughters, insightful

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Polls

July's genre is general/literary fiction and since it's summer, I thought we would read women's fiction with a bit of a lighter fare. This poll will end on June 10th.

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Fannie Flagg

3 votes, 60.0%

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Rebecca Wells

1 vote, 20.0%

Songs Without Words

Ann Packer

1 vote, 20.0%

Garden Spells

Sarah Addison Allen

0 votes, 0.0%

If You Could See Me Now

Cecelia Ahern

0 votes, 0.0%

Mrs Kimble

Jennifer Haigh

0 votes, 0.0%

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