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Sarah Bird
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The Gap Year
   3.33 avg rating — 547 ratings
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2011
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The Yokota Officers Club: A Novel
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2001
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The Flamenco Academy
3.76 avg rating — 354 ratings
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2006
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How Perfect Is That
3.13 avg rating — 392 ratings
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2008
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The Boyfriend School
3.77 avg rating — 250 ratings
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1989
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Alamo House
3.76 avg rating — 226 ratings
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1986
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The Mommy Club
3.32 avg rating — 180 ratings
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1991
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Virgin of the Rodeo
3.55 avg rating — 117 ratings
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1993
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Virgin of the Rodeo
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1996
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Cloud Waltzer
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1984
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| I am, possibly, the least likely fan for a book about a werewolf. Yet from the first sentence I was hooked simply by the language. "pop-kittenish breasts,"a compressed mass of Freudian maggots," "the warmth of being watched," "phone's drift of not si...more | |
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| I was looking forward to being transported by a big, lush historical epic, but, somehow, this one never quite achieved escape velocity. Perhaps it's partially my fault since I was on book tour and more than usually distracted. But I think not. | |
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| Spoiler Alert: The writing is uniformly superb, but I object to plots that ultimately hinge on the machinations of some maniacal medical/government/international business conspiracy. It seems a cheat to write a character-driven literary thriller then...more | |
“I shrug and smile amiably the way you do when you're in a foreign country and have no idea what anyone is saying, so you end up grinning and nodding your way into a three-way with a henna vendor and a camel.”
― Sarah Bird, How Perfect Is That
― Sarah Bird, How Perfect Is That
“So much is exploding inside of me that I feel like a bag of Orville Redenbacher's in the microwave. Too much has happened all at once. I stagnated for years with nothing happening, and now, all in one day, too much is happening.”
― Sarah Bird, The Gap Year
― Sarah Bird, The Gap Year
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