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  <name><![CDATA[Chris Bohjalian]]></name>
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  <fans-count type="integer">206</fans-count>
  <followers-count type="integer">193</followers-count>
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  <about><![CDATA[First of all, for those who want a little unexpected and little known background, visit 

http://thesnoopster.com/2009/09/%e2%80%98the-noose-stays%e2%80%99/

It is Elaine Matsushita's article about Chris's house for the Snoopster.

Now, here is a bio that is a little more formal:

Chris Bohjalian is the author of eleven novels, including the New York Times bestsellers, Skeletons at the Feast, The Double Bind, Before You Know Kindness, The Law of Similars, and Midwives. 

His next book, Secrets of Eden, comes out on February 2, 2010.


Chris won the New England Book Award in 2002, and his novel, Midwives, was a number one New York Times bestseller, a selection of Oprah's Book Club, a Publishers Weekly &quot;Best Book,&quot; and a New England Booksellers Association Discovery pick. His work has been translated into over 25 languages and twice become movies (&quot;Midwives&quot; and &quot;Past the Bleachers&quot;). 

He has written for a wide variety of magazines, including Cosmopolitan, Reader's Digest, and the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, and has been a Sunday columnist for Gannett's Burlington Free Press since 1992. Chris graduated from Amherst College, and lives in Vermont with his wife and daughter.

You can learn more about him here and on facebook . And, if you like, follow him on twitter as well. 

]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>White Plains, New York</hometown>      
  
  
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  <average_rating>3.77</average_rating>
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  <published>1998</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Double Bind]]></title>
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  <published>2007</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Trans-Sister Radio]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Chris Bohjalian]]></name>
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  <published>2000</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Skeletons at the Feast]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Chris Bohjalian]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Before You Know Kindness]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Buffalo Soldier]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Law of Similars]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Chris Bohjalian]]></name>
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  <published>1999</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Water Witches]]></title>
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  <average_rating>3.46</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>706</ratings_count>
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  <title><![CDATA[Idyll Banter: Weekly Excursions to a Very Small Town]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Chris Bohjalian]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.60</average_rating>
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  <title><![CDATA[Past the Bleachers]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Chris Bohjalian]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.44</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>36</ratings_count>
  <published>1992</published>  
  
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