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Howard Norman

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January 01, 1949 in Toledo, Ohio, The United States

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Howard A. Norman (born 1949), is an American award-winning writer and educator. Most of his short stories and novels are set in Canada's Maritime Provinces. He has written several translations of Algonquin, Cree, Eskimo, and Inuit folklore. His books have been translated into 12 languages.

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Average rating: 3.60 · 3,090 ratings · 606 reviews · 28 distinct works

	The Bird Artist 3.81 avg rating — 1,006 ratings — published 1994 — 9 editions	My rating:
	What Is Left the Daughter 3.43 avg rating — 1,110 ratings — published 2010 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Museum Guard 3.57 avg rating — 340 ratings — published 1998 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Haunting Of L 3.44 avg rating — 194 ratings — published 2001 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Northern Lights: A Novel 3.70 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 1987 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Devotion 3.19 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	My rating:
	In Fond Remembrance of Me: A Memoir of Myth and Uncommon Friendship in the Arctic 3.67 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Chauffeur: Stories 3.61 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2002	My rating:
	Kiss In The Hotel Joseph Conrad And Other Stories 3.97 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1989 — 3 editions	My rating:
	My Famous Evening: Nova Scotia Sojourns, Diaries, and Preoccupations 3.41 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“Friendship is provisional, you have to keep earning it, back and forth, give the gift that's only each other's to give”
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“In The Highland Book of Platitudes, Marlais, there's an entry that reads, "Not all ghosts earn our memory in equal measure." I think about this sometimes. I think especially about the word "earn," because it implies an ongoing willful effort on the part of the dead, so that if you believe the platitude, you have to believe in the afterlife, don't you? Following that line of thought, there seem to be certain people—call them ghosts—with the ability to insinuate themselves into your life with more belligerence and exactitude than others—it's their employment and expertise.”
― Howard Norman, What Is Left the Daughter

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“What good is intelligence,' Akutagawa asked, 'if you can't ever discover a useful melancholy?”
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