Marcy Dermansky
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Hurricane Girl
6 editions
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2022
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Very Nice
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2019
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Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York
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2013
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The Red Car
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2016
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Bad Marie
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2010
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Hot Air
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2025
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Twins
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2005
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Decoloración: Una colección de historias
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"another excellent banger from Dermansky, who manages to get inside people to show us how truly awful we all are when it comes to our innermost thoughts. incredible what she packs into 200 pages."
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"What starts as a first date between Joanie and Johnny at the beginning of the pandemic at Johnny’s house with their two kids watching movies in the basement ends as a wild swinger weekend when Joanie’s first boyfriend turned billionaire Jonathan and "
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I never once thought what it would be like to work on the sales floor of a fancy department store in San Fransisco and now I feel like I know. Thank you, Jessica. Zippy is actually the sweetest girl, but I mean that genuinely. She gives up a job wear ...more | |
"Ordinary people in an absurd situation - hot air balloon crashes in a pool and crazily impacts 6 people or so, witty and darkly funny"
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Jessica Francis Kane's books have a way of sneaking up on me. They begin in a way that seem quiet, mannered and then building, until I am enthralled in the story. In this case, it's a fictional account of a trip that writer Penelope Fitzgerald took w ...more | |
"My first time reading LSS, and I loved it! The POV choice is so intriguing, and I loved all these messy, oddball characters. Great prose, totally worth a read!"
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This is my blurb for the book: "If there is a canon for writing about postpartum depression, I would like to nominate Danit Brown’s Television For Women and then put it on the top of the list. I started to read this crazy thrill ride of a novel befor ...more | |
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I have read TWO time travel novels this summer! How did that happen? The clear moral lesson was that time travel between different periods of time to change history is not good. That is incredibly simplistic. There was a gorgeous relationship between ...more | |
“While I was not entirely satisfied with the circumstances of my existence, I felt like the possibility of improvement still existed. That I could make happiness happen.”
― The Red Car
― The Red Car
“And that is one of the problems of your generation. All sex. No romance. No love.”
― The Red Car
― The Red Car
“I was brand-new in San Francisco, right out of college, and I thought it was thrilling, a guy buying me a drink. I didn’t think, how tacky, this creep is buying me a drink. I thought, how amazing, I put on lipstick and a short skirt and look what can happen.”
― The Red Car
― The Red Car
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“And that is one of the problems of your generation. All sex. No romance. No love.”
― The Red Car
― The Red Car
“While I was not entirely satisfied with the circumstances of my existence, I felt like the possibility of improvement still existed. That I could make happiness happen.”
― The Red Car
― The Red Car
“I was brand-new in San Francisco, right out of college, and I thought it was thrilling, a guy buying me a drink. I didn’t think, how tacky, this creep is buying me a drink. I thought, how amazing, I put on lipstick and a short skirt and look what can happen.”
― The Red Car
― The Red Car
“Judy shook her head when she saw me the next day, dressed in the same clothes I had worn to work the day before. “We used to call that the walk of shame,” she said.”
― The Red Car
― The Red Car

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