Maile Meloy



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Maile Meloy

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

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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.


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Average rating: 3.70 · 5565 ratings · 1155 reviews · 7 distinct works
Both Ways is the Only Way I...
3.75 of 5 stars 375 avg rating — 2230 ratings — published 2009 — 12 editions
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3.85 of 5 stars 385 avg rating — 1318 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions
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Liars and Saints
3.56 of 5 stars 356 avg rating — 1111 ratings — published 2003 — 15 editions
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A Family Daughter
3.37 of 5 stars 337 avg rating — 497 ratings — published 2006 — 11 editions
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Half in Love : Stories
3.77 of 5 stars 377 avg rating — 402 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions
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White Lies
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“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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“Now, alone on the roof, Valentine looked at her shoes and wished people would either stay or go away, but not constantly coming back and leaving again.”
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