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Jennifer Gilmore

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Jennifer Gilmore is the author of two novels, Golden Country, a 2006 New York Times Notable Book, and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the National Jewish Book Award, and Something Red , a New York Times Notable Book of 2010. Her new novel, The Mothers, will be published by Scribner in April 2013.

Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in magazines and journals including Allure, Bomb, BookForum, the Los Angeles Times, Nerve, the New York Times, the New York Times Book Review, Salon, SELF, Tin House, Vogue and the Washington Post, and her personal essays have also been included in several anthologies including More New York Stories: The Best of the City Section of the New York Times, The Friend Who Got Away, Bad Girls: 26...more

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New Book!

Here's the Publishers Weekly announcement of my new book, The Mothers, coming in April 2013, from Scibner...

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by... read more »

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	Something Red 3.09 avg rating — 165 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Golden Country 3.20 avg rating — 196 ratings — published 2006 — 9 editions	My rating:

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February 2010, Jennifer Gilmore
" What Readers want to know... SS: How would you describe perfect happiness? JG: Sitting on a warm rock, a mountain to my back, my dog swimming in a cold lake. If someone I love is with me, even better. SS: What’s your greatest fear? JG: I believe that..." ...More

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