Lisa Carey

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born

January 01, 1970 in Boston, Massachusetts , The United States

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female

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http://www.lisacarey.net/

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Literature & Fiction

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Lisa Carey was born in 1970 in Boston, Massachusetts to Irish-American parents. She grew up in Brookline and later moved with her family to Hingham, Massachusetts.

She attended Boston College and received a B.A. in English and Philosophy in 1992.

Pursuing her MFA in Writing, she took a semester off and lived in Inishbofin, Ireland for six months. There, Carey began her first novel, The Mermaids Singing. This novel was her creative thesis for her MFA and she graduated from Vermont College in 1996.

For five years, Carey divided her time between Ireland and New England, where she wrote her second novel, In the Country of the Young.

In 2003, she married Timothy Spalding. She and her husband currently live in Portland, Maine with their son, Liam.

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Average rating: 3.73 · 1,846 ratings · 272 reviews · 7 distinct works

	The Mermaids Singing 3.73 avg rating — 874 ratings — published 1998 — 16 editions	My rating:
	In the Country of the Young 3.90 avg rating — 330 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Love in the Asylum: A Novel 3.64 avg rating — 318 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Every Visible Thing: A Novel 3.64 avg rating — 325 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions	My rating:
	La Petite Fille Fantôme 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2005	My rating:
	Das Lied der Insel 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	La Petite Fille Fantôme: Roman 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2002	My rating:

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“A girl is there. Dressed in a dirty rag of a dress, turning to look at him with the large, gold eyes that have studied everything from the rafters. Her hair in the overhead light appears dark for an instant, then when she shifts, fair. She is there in vivid detail, down to a mustache of beaded water above her generous mouth. A dead girl, looking more real and more alive than anyone he has ever seen.

She is not the girl—Oisin knows this with an instant, wrenching disappointment—whom he has been waiting for.”
― Lisa Carey, In the Country of the Young

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