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Alison Espach

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born

January 01, 1984 in Trumbull, Connecticut, The United States

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female

website

http://alisonespach.com/

genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

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Alison Espach grew up in Trumbull, Connecticut, where she lived for most of her life. She earned her BA from Providence College and her Masters in Creative Writing from Washington University in St. Louis. Her writing has appeared in McSweeney's, Five Chapters, Glamour, Salon, The Daily Beast, Writer's Digest, and other journals.

She is currently teaching in New York City.

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Alison Espach's Blog

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NO-PUNCHLINE PUNCHLINE + MICHAEL SHOWALTER

April Fool's Day is the kind of holiday that I don't remember exists until it is the morning of April Fool's Day. And even upon waking, it usually takes someone evil, like a brother, who puts potato chips at the foot of my bed to remind me(all in the name of humor, of course).

Or a boyfriend who pretends he has to move; "I'm moving to California" was his great joke, and me -- so relieved to
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Books by Alison Espach

Average rating: 3.40 · 1,297 ratings · 261 reviews · 3 distinct works

	The Adults 3.40 avg rating — 1,291 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Someone's Uncle: A Story 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	The Adults by Alison Espach, Tavia Gilbert 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011	My rating:

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Quotes by Alison Espach

“Children's lives are always beginning and adults' lives are always ending. Or is it the opposite? Your childhood is always ending and your adult self is always beginning. You are always learning how to say good-bye to whoever you were at the dinner table the night before.”
― Alison Espach, The Adults

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“And then once in the music storage room. It was cold. The room was small with thin gray carpet and I cried after in my bed thinking of how sad the violins looked alone in the corner. It was embarrassing to have sex in front of the wrong things, especially a violin, which was so dignified at every angle”
― Alison Espach, The Adults

5 people liked it

“Being an adult, it seemed, was horrible. But being a child was awful too, and moving from one state to the other only meant you were moving closer to death, with so much and so little to talk about all at the same time, and how was that even possible?”
― Alison Espach, The Adults

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