Leah Hager Cohen





Leah Hager Cohen

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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.


Average rating: 3.48 · 1,529 ratings · 329 reviews · 9 distinct works
The Grief of Others
3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 733 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions
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Train Go Sorry: Inside a De...
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 358 ratings3 editions
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House Lights
3.13 of 5 stars 3.13 avg rating — 159 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions
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Heart, You Bully, You Punk
3.36 of 5 stars 3.36 avg rating — 141 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions
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Glass, Paper, Beans: Revela...
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions
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Without Apology: Girls, Wom...
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2005
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Heat Lightning
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions
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The Stuff of Dreams: Behind...
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions
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Murder, Madness
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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

“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



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