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“Adrianne Harun's dark, mysterious novel is by turns Gothic and grittily realistic, astute and poetic in its evocation of evil everywhere.”

Andrea Barrett

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“It was through Peter that she first understood that the world existed before her, without her. For a few days she could not forgive…

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I grew up on Cape Cod. We didn't live right on the water, but I could walk to it and did every day.

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The thing I'm particularly interested in is natural history. In its heyday, the mid- and late-nineteenth century, when people were going out and gathering…

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By junior high, I was a horrible student. But during my sophomore year of high school, I did have a fabulous English teacher, and…

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I think the landscape you grow up in probably does mark you in ways you don't even understand.

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It's hard to explain how much one can love writing. If people knew how happy it can make you, we would all be writing…

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I wanted to be a scientist. My undergraduate degree is in biology, and I really did think I might go off and be some…

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I've never known a writer who didn't feel ill at ease in the world. We all feel unhoused in some sense. That's part of…

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“He thought back but Bianca, her foot heavy on the accelerator, thought away . From Rose, their mother, their entire past, books and papers…

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I'm not adopted. But that longing and that sense of absence ... are perhaps other ways of expressing the actualities of my family. Different…

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Margot Livesey, my dear friend, reads all the drafts of what I write, and I read hers. We have an intense working relationship. I've…

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“Slowly, I began to relearn something I’d once grasped but had lost sight of: that emotion—that central element of fiction—derives not from information or…

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