Maile Meloy





Maile Meloy

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in Helena, Montana, The United States
January 01, 1972

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Maile Meloy was born in Helena, Montana, in 1972. A Family Daughter is her third book. Her short stories have been published in The New Yorker and The Paris Review. Her first story collection, Half in Love, received the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters , the John C. Zacharis Award from Ploughshares, and the PEN/Malamud Award. Her first novel, Liars and Saints, was shortlisted for England’s 2005 Orange Prize. Both books were New York Times Notable Books. She has also received The Paris Review’s Aga Khan Prize for Fiction and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in California.


Average rating: 3.74 · 8,000 ratings · 1,495 reviews · 10 distinct works · Similar authors
Both Ways is the Only Way I...
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 2,816 ratings — published 2009 — 14 editions
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3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 2,574 ratings — published 2011 — 11 editions
Liars and Saints
3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 1,363 ratings — published 2003 — 19 editions
Half in Love: Stories
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 502 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions
A Family Daughter
3.39 of 5 stars 3.39 avg rating — 592 ratings — published 2006 — 13 editions
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3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 20 ratings — expected publication 2013 — 2 editions
The Proxy Marriage
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4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 2008
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“She craved a family, not having had enough of one to understand what a pain in the ass it was.”
Maile Meloy, Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It

“His heart felt dangerously full, for the first time in years. That dried-up battered organ, suddenly flush with love. It could kill him.”
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“The force with which he wanted it both ways made him grit his teeth. What kind of fool wanted it only one way?”
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