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  • Twice Born

    by Hester Kaplan ...
    **Longlisted for the NBCC Award for AutobiographyA deeply reflective memoir weaving together the personal story of Hester Kaplan’s acclaimed biographer father and his fraught effect on her artistic development with a rich portrait of twentieth century intellectual life and a meditation on family intimacy, identity, and the art of writing**Twice Born opens with the death of Hester’s father, Justin ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Tell

    A Novel

    by Hester Kaplan ...
    An elegant and haunting novel of love and family, The Tell demands that we reconsider our notions of marriage—duty, compromise, betrayal, and the choice to stand by or leave the ones we loveFor Mira and Owen, a young, childless couple living in Providence, marital and financial troubles are simmering just below the surface—until Wilton Deere, a wealthy, over-the-hill actor, moves in next door. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Unravished

    by Hester Kaplan ...
    In this haunting new collection of stories from award-winning writer Hester Kaplan, the past has a way of showing up when it is least welcome. In the title story Unravished,” a woman reconsiders her marriage to a man bent on destroying a world famous landscape. In The School of Politics,” a bored museum director struggles to understand her youthful affair with a corrupt politician. The fastidious ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Hold That Knowledge

    Stories about Love from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

    by Gail Galloway Adams, Tony Ardizzone, Wendy Brenner, Daniel Curley, Linda LeGarde Grover, Dennis Hathaway, Hester Kaplan, Christopher McIlroy, Debra Monroe, Anne Panning, Bill Roorbach, Margot Singer, Sandra Thompson, iamak Vossoughi ...
    Series Book 109 - Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
    Love, in some of the infinite ways we may know it, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction series.More than seventy volumes, which include approximately eight hundred stories, have won the Flannery O’Connor Award. This stunning trove of always engaging, often ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

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  • A Simple Thing

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