Susan Perabo
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The Fall of Lisa Bellow
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2017
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Why They Run the Way They Do
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2016
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Who I Was Supposed to Be
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1999
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The Broken Places
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2001
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Explaining Death To The Dog
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1999
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Indulgence
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2013
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Counting the Ways
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The Payoff
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Writers in the Schools: A Guide to Teaching Creative Writing in the Classroom
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1998
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"What a remarkable novel. Very readable (which is not true for all The NY Times 21st century books) and it drives the reader to the end. Wonderful use of time jumping to continue the story while not bogging you down in minutiae "
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Wow. I loved this. It's a novel that creeps up on you, in a way that reminded me of Alice McDermott. You're reading along, enjoying it, and about a quarter of the way through you suddenly realize you are 100% invested in every single character. I was ...more | |
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“Breakfast was the meal where they could actually sit together for fifteen or twenty minutes, during which her father inevitably asked everyone to set a goal for the day. They didn’t have to be serious goals—her father wasn’t that guy—but were intended, he always said, to let everyone know something about what the others were doing as they went about their day.”
― The Fall of Lisa Bellow
― The Fall of Lisa Bellow
“That's the difference between people like you and people like me. You think everything's sad. Because all you do is THINK about stuff all the time. If you only think about stuff half the time you're way less sad. What do you do the other half of the time? When you're not thinking? Uh, I don't know, maybe have a life?”
― The Fall of Lisa Bellow
― The Fall of Lisa Bellow
“Your parents didn't particularly care if you wanted to carpool with someone else to swimming lessons; it was convenient for you and Amanda Hammels to travel together, even if you never talked to each other in school, so, by god, that was the way it was going to be.”
― The Fall of Lisa Bellow
― The Fall of Lisa Bellow
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