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Leah Hager Cohen

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The United States

gender

female

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http://leahhagercohen.com/

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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

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Leah Hager Cohen has written four non-fiction books, including Train Go Sorry and Glass, Paper, Beans, and four novels, including House Lights and The Grief of Others.

She serves as the Jenks Chair in Contemporary American Letters at the College of the Holy Cross, and teaches in the Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review.

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Books by Leah Hager Cohen

Average rating: 3.48 · 1,529 ratings · 329 reviews · 9 distinct works

	The Grief of Others 3.33 avg rating — 733 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf World 3.89 avg rating — 358 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	House Lights 3.13 avg rating — 159 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Heart, You Bully, You Punk 3.36 avg rating — 141 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Glass, Paper, Beans: Revelations on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things 3.65 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Without Apology: Girls, Women, and the Desire to Fight 4.08 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Heat Lightning 3.66 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Stuff of Dreams: Behind the Scenes of an American Community Theater 3.95 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Murder, Madness 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1954	My rating:

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“Every sad thing, every loss or hurt really a challenge to love that much more, really just another of beauty's many strongholds.”
― Leah Hager Cohen, Heart, You Bully, You Punk

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“There is nowhere morning does not go.”
― Leah Hager Cohen, Glass, Paper, Beans: Revelations on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things

tags: morning , time

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“Increasing pressure on students to subject themselves to ever more tests, whittling themselves down to rows and rows of tight black integers upon a transcript, all ready to goose-step straight into a computer.”
― Leah Hager Cohen, Heart, You Bully, You Punk

tags: education

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