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Jane Roper is the author of a memoir, DOUBLE TIME: How I Survived--and Mostly Thrived--Through my First Three Years Mothering Twins (St. Martin's Press) and EDEN LAKE a novel. Jane received her MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers Workshop, and her BA from Williams College. She lives in the Boston area with her husband and twin daughters. She blogs at http://www.janeroper.com


Since I started writing this blog, and since word of Clio’s diagnosis began spreading among my inner and outer circles of friends, I’ve heard from at least a dozen people whose children have just been diagnosed with leukemia or some other cancer. Some have contacted me just days after the news, in complete shock. For... Read the Rest » Read more of this blog post »
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Average rating: 3.68 · 161 ratings · 60 reviews · 3 distinct works · Similar authors
Eden Lake
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions
Double Time: How I Survived...
3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions
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3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions

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All This Talk of Love
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This book had everything I look for in a family drama: Well-drawn characters, complex relationships, an exploration of how the past informs the present. It's a portrait of a family at a critical moment -- the aging, immigrant parents approaching the...more
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The Pursuit of Alice Thrift by Elinor Lipman
The Pursuit of Alice Thrift
by Elinor Lipman
read in February, 2013
"OK -- I'm in. I was about to give up, but there's nothing like peer pressure when it comes to a Big Book!"
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Cascade
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“Truth was such a tricky thing when it came to children. When was it good medicine and when was it poison”
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