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Samantha Hunt

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Pound Ridge, New York, The United States

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http://www.samanthahunt.net/

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Samantha Hunt was born in 1971 in Pound Ridge, New York, the youngest of six siblings. She was raised in a house built in 1765 which wasn't haunted in the traditional sense but was so overstuffed with books— good and bad ones— that it had the effect of haunting Hunt all the same. Her mother is a painter and her father was an editor. In 1989 Hunt moved to Vermont where she studied literature, printmaking, and geology. She got her MFA from Warren Wilson College and then, in 1999, moved to New York City. While working on her writing, she held a number of odd jobs including a stint in an envelope factory.

Samantha Hunt received a National Book Foundation award for authors under 35, for her novel, The Seas. The Invention of Everything Else was sh ...more

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Wild Swimming

On the dangers, joys, and damp insurgency of public water

Deakin, once stopped by a river keeper, was asked, “Does that fence mean anything to you?” Deakin leapt over the fence invoking Woody Guthrie’s oft-skipped verse, “A sign was painted said, private property. But on the backside, it didn’t say nothing. This land was made for you and me.” Deakin lived in a country with an established Right

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Samantha Hunt’s books

Average rating: 3.76 · 27,305 ratings · 4,346 reviews · 20 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Seas 4.02 avg rating — 8,877 ratings — published 2004 — 11 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
	Mr. Splitfoot 3.65 avg rating — 7,768 ratings — published 2016 — 18 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 Dark Dark 3.65 avg rating — 3,895 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	The Invention of Everything Else 3.52 avg rating — 2,742 ratings — published 2008 — 37 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 Unwritten Book: An Investigation 4.17 avg rating — 554 ratings — published 2022 — 6 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
	Three Days 4.15 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2006	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
	Go, Team 3.77 avg rating — 26 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
	The Yellow 2.79 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2010	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
	Night Divine by Samantha Hunt, Phillip Toledano (Photographer) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2018	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 Secret Handshake by Samantha Hunt, Paige McKinney (Narrator) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2005	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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Quotes by Samantha Hunt (?)

“If one word can mean so many things at the same time then I don't see why I can't.”
― Samantha Hunt, The Seas

tags: identity, words-have-power

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“I'll just tell you what I remember because memory is as close as I've gotten to building my own time machine.”
― Samantha Hunt, The Invention of Everything Else

tags: memory, time-travel

25 likes

“You don't get to keep the feelings for someone you once loved. Once you've washed your hands of that person, all those feelings, all that dirty water is washed out to sea.”
― Samantha Hunt, The Seas

tags: love

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Please take into account the availability, cost, and length of books when voting for them. Remember, if you vote for a book and it wins, you are implicitly promising to read the book and participate in the discussion. The poll will be open through August 31st. Discussion will begin October 1st.

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

8 votes, 27.6%

The Night Watch by Sarah Waters

6 votes, 20.7%

The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers

5 votes, 17.2%

Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros

4 votes, 13.8%

Mr. Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt

4 votes, 13.8%

All the Living by C.E. Morgan

1 vote, 3.4%

Ruby by Cynthia Bond

1 vote, 3.4%

Confessions by Rabee Jaber

0 votes, 0.0%

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