Kathryn Harrison

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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

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Kathryn Harrison is the author of the novels Envy, The Seal Wife, The Binding Chair, Poison, Exposure, and Thicker Than Water.
She has also written memoirs, The Kiss and The Mother Knot, a travel memoir, The Road To Santiago, a biography, Saint Therese Of Lisieux, and a collection of personal essays, Seeking Rapture.
Ms. Harrison is a frequent reviewer for The New York Times Book Review; her essays, which have been included in many anthologies, have appeared in The New yorker, Harper's Magazine, Vogue, O Magazine, Salon, and other publications.
She lives in New York with her husband, the novelist Colin Harrison, and their children.

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Books by Kathryn Harrison

Average rating: 3.31 · 9,045 ratings · 969 reviews · 29 distinct works

	The Kiss 3.31 avg rating — 1,575 ratings — published 1997 — 14 editions	My rating:
	The Binding Chair or, A Visit from the Foot Emancipation Society 3.39 avg rating — 661 ratings — published 1997 — 18 editions	My rating:
	While They Slept: An Inquiry Into the Murder of a Family 2.94 avg rating — 421 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Exposure 3.56 avg rating — 339 ratings — 10 editions	My rating:
	Poison 3.58 avg rating — 338 ratings — published 1995 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Enchantments 3.31 avg rating — 271 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Seal Wife 3.17 avg rating — 275 ratings — 13 editions	My rating:
	Envy 2.99 avg rating — 187 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Mother Knot 3.34 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Thicker Than Water 3.29 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 1991 — 7 editions	My rating:

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“There must be many of us whose lives have been divided into a before and after, with an accident, a death, a crime, a crisis, some moment or year or relationship that came between and changed everything. I want to see how your life moved forward from that point of division.”
― Kathryn Harrison, While They Slept: An Inquiry Into the Murder of a Family

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“Scars are stories, history written on the body”
― Kathryn Harrison

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“If complete enlightenment demands relinquishing the self, then complete enlightenment implies the acceptance of mortality. Not that there isn't more to being enlightened than accepting that our lives are brief and end when we did. But I do think it's a requirement.”
― Kathryn Harrison, Enchantments

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