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Susan Conley

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Susan Conley is the author of Landslide (Knopf, February 2021): “a spectacular tale of hardship and healing. Conley has knocked it out of the park," (Lily King, Writers and Lovers). Susan's previous novel Elsey Come Home (Knopf, 2019), was a Most Anticipated/Best Book at Oprah Magazine, Marie Claire Magazine, Amazon Books, Pop Sugar, Huffington Post, Southern Living Magazine, Fodors, The Library Journal, Maine Women’s Magazine, and others.
Susan is also the author of Paris Was the Place (Knopf, 2013), an Amazon Fall Big Books Pick for fiction, an Indie Next Pick, an Elle Magazine Readers Prize Pick, and a People magazine Top Pick. Susan’s memoir, The Foremost Good Fortune (Knopf 2011), was excerpted in the New York Times Magazine and the Da ...more

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Average rating: 3.56 · 5,778 ratings · 1,134 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	Landslide: A novel 3.72 avg rating — 2,317 ratings — published 2021 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paris Was the Place 3.47 avg rating — 1,149 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Foremost Good Fortune 3.65 avg rating — 1,015 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Elsey Come Home 3.17 avg rating — 1,060 ratings — published 2019 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China by Tom Carter (Editor), Dominic Stevenson (Contributor), Peter Hessler (Contributor) 3.61 avg rating — 188 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stop Here, This Is the Place by Susan Conley (Goodreads Author), Winky Lewis (Photographer) 4.40 avg rating — 53 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ploughshares Fall, 1998: Fiction Issue Edited by Lorrie Moore, Nos. 2 & 3 by Lorrie Moore (Editor), David Daniel (Editor), Susan Conley (Goodreads Author) 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Books about Paris are a surefire hit - from romance to mystery to intrigue, what better way to fantasize about Paris than reading a book about it, preferably over a glass of Bordeaux? I've hand-picked a selection of French-themed books below and to help you decide which ones fit your style, I've asked each author a few questions. Read their responses and check out th

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“Here it is out in the open and based—like all love is, maybe—on some amount of abiding affection and on some other amount of need.”
― Susan Conley, Paris Was the Place

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“I want to be the heroine of my story. And you, too, Elsey. You, too, be the heroine. Not the victim. Understand? Because the heroine is the one who owns the story.”
― Susan Conley, Elsey Come Home

tags: heroine, not-a-victim, story, women

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“Marriage is long, and you have to will yourself to choose it. Change or die.”
― Susan Conley, Landslide: A novel

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July 2019 Members Choice poll

It is now time to vote on our winning book from the July Member's Choice Book Nominations.

Please note that book covers may not be as shown in the poll. Covers vary on different editions. Please go by the title and author, not the book cover.

Even though this poll opened earlier than the 8th, it will remain open until the end of the day on June14th.

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The Invention of Wings

by Sue Monk Kidd

22 votes, 29.3%

The Life She Was Given

by Ellen Marie Wiseman

20 votes, 26.7%

A Place for Us

by Fatima Farheen Mirza

14 votes, 18.7%

The Nowhere Child

by Christian White

8 votes, 10.7%

Elsey Come Home

by Susan Conley

6 votes, 8.0%

The Cows

by Dawn O'Porter

3 votes, 4.0%

The Adults

by Caroline Hulse

2 votes, 2.7%

75 total votes

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Susan’s Quotes

“On the girl's brown legs there were many small white scars. I was thinking, Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and the moons on your dress? I thought that would be pretty too, and I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

tags: healing, scars

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