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Jeff Talarigo

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Jeff Talarigo

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Jeff Talarigo is the author of three novels and numerous short stories. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, he has received many honors, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award for his first novel “The Pearl Diver”, one of eleven novels on the 2009 Notable Books List by the American Library Association for his second novel “The Ginseng Hunter”, NPR’s 2008 “Under the Radar”, a 2005 Kiriyama Prize Notable Book, been featured on NPR’s “Weekend Edition” and awarded a fellowship at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers in 2006-07. His work has been published in five languages. He lived in Japan for fifteen years and twice lived in the Gaza Strip, the setting for his third novel “In the Ceme ...more

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The Pearl Diver

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The Ginseng Hunter

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Jeff and 2 other people liked Rebecca Wedholm's review of The Pearl Diver:
The Pearl Diver by Jeff Talarigo
"I loved it so much! The writing style is really beautiful and it kept my attention. I like the little spurts of paragraphs based on the “artifact” and I loved how whatever happened in the paragraph was related to it. You can sort of feel suspense bui" Read more of this review »
Jeff and 1 other person liked Madlen's review of Die Perlentaucherin:
Die Perlentaucherin by Jeff Talarigo
"This book made me feel some things.
Tragic, beautiful and touching."
In the Cemetery of the Orange Trees by Jeff Talarigo
"«  I am the anti-Noah. My ark—this zoo—is a death ship »

A powerful read. "
The Pearl Diver by Jeff Talarigo
"I'd put trigger warning on this book. There were ALOT of very heartbreaking and graphic parts in this book. I liked the book. I cried a bit. Very sad. It is a good representation of how the world views people with diseases. I liked how they showed th" Read more of this review »
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“A small step forward is better than one back.”
Jeff Talarigo, The Pearl Diver

“But we all have moments when we must listen in tears to the silence of the swarming path inside ourselves.”
Jeff Talarigo

“Imagine that the correct words had been chosen by those people who are in charge of our lives. A few well-though-out words and things might have been different. Unfortunately, they have chosen all the wrong words.”
Jeff Talarigo, The Pearl Diver

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“Imagine that the correct words had been chosen by those people who are in charge of our lives. A few well-though-out words and things might have been different. Unfortunately, they have chosen all the wrong words.”
Jeff Talarigo, The Pearl Diver

“If our children are unable to voice what they mean, no one will know how they feel. If they can’t imagine a different world, they are stumbling through a darkness made all the more sinister by its lack of reference points. For a young person growing up in America’s alienated neighborhoods, there can be no greater empowerment than to dare to speak from the heart — and then to discover that one is not alone in ones feelings.”
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