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Barb Johnson worked as a carpenter in New Orleans for more than twenty years before receiving her MFA from the University of New Orleans in 2008. She has won Glimmer Train’s Best New Voice and her work has appeared in such magazines as Glimmer Train, Washington Square, The Greensboro Review, Guernica and Oxford American. In 2009, she received a grant from A Room of Her Own Foundation, which will support the writing of her first novel. A collection of her short stories entitled, More of This World or Maybe Another, was released by HarperCollins in fall 2009. She lives and writes in New Orleans.



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Average rating: 4.23 · 178 ratings · 54 reviews · 9 distinct works
More of This World or Maybe...
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 177 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions
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Keeping Her Difficult Balance
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What Was Left
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This is not your grandmother's ex-nun story. Johnson speaks openly and frankly about her experiences as a nun in the order founded by Mother Teresa. While working closely with Mother Teresa, Mary Johnson experienced the holy joy of prayer and the ang...more
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"Lauren, that is what is so great about the book. Ostlund makes the most mundane preferences and peculiarities resonate with us. "
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The Bigness of the World
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I loved this book. Whether exotic or ordinary, the settings are specific and satisfying to read about. The characters' quirks often made me laugh aloud. One woman doesn't like to wear T-shirts because they "encroach" on her neck.

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Wrecker: A Novel
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Summer Wood has a keen eye for place, and for the ordinary moments in life that become extraordinary in memory. Here, she aims that astute eye on a ragtag group living on the outskirts of society, each member of the ad hoc family drawn into the same...more
More of This World or Maybe Another by Barb Johnson
" In the tradition of Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio" or Joyce's "Dubliners," (or a more recent example, Elizabeth's Strout's "Olive Kitteridge") this short story collection is linked by setting, character and theme -- all strong elements here.

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“There's real trouble in the world. The kind that can't be fixed. The kind we lie awake keeping vigil against. Love is not trouble. It's all we have to light our days, to bring music to the time we've been given.”
Barb Johnson, More of This World or Maybe Another




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