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Caroline Leavitt

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Caroline Leavitt is the New York Times bestselling author of Cruel Beautiful World, Is This Tomorrow, With or Without You, Pictures of You (Algonquin Books), which. Pictures of You was on the Best Books of the Year lists from the San Francisco Chronicle, The Providence Journal, Bookmarks and Kirkus Reviews. It was also a Costco Pennie's Pick. Is This Tomorrow was long listed for the Main Readers Prize, a WNBA Reading group Choice, A San Francisco Chronicle Lit Pick/Editor's Choice, a Jewish Book Club Pic and the winner of an Audiofile Earphones Award.

Her 13th novel DAYS OF WONDER will be published by Algonquin/Hatchette in the spring of 2024.

The winner of a New York Foundation of the Arts Grant, a second prize winner in Goldenberg Fiction P
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Caroline Leavitt You get to make up stories! You get to live other lives! It is the best feeling in the world.
Caroline Leavitt I rewrite something that I've already written and think is okay. That usually unlocks stuff. Or I outline. Then it goes away!…moreI rewrite something that I've already written and think is okay. That usually unlocks stuff. Or I outline. Then it goes away!(less)
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Pictures of You

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Is This Tomorrow

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Cruel Beautiful World

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Girls in Trouble

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With or Without You

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Days of Wonder

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Coming Back to Me

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The Prince and the Pooch

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A brave book of love and understanding: A Girlhood: Letter to My Transgender Daughter by Carolyn Hays

 




Listen up because this gorgeous, luminous, tear-your-heart-out and patch-it-together book is a love letter to the author’s brave transgender daughter. Please buy copies for friends, buy copies for yourself, buy copies for those who might rail against this so that they might read, open their minds and understand.

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“Which is worse, she thinks, waiting for the sting, or the sting itself?”
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“Why doesn’t he get over it already? But that was the secret, wasn’t it? You never got over what you lost. You always carried it with you, stitched to you like Peter Pan’s shadow. And you never wanted to get over it, because who wanted to forget a time that had been so important? No, the truth was, you wanted to remember it always.”
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Caroline Leavitt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTVQZ...

A video of me talking about Cruel Beautiful World, which is out in paperback August 8th!


Caroline Leavitt Hi everyone, Oh my God, Celeste Ng's LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE is so incredibly great! Who is reading it?


Caroline Leavitt Please join me June 18th for a special tweet chat with a three book giveaway. A few people will be invited for a video chat to follow. Plase come! It will be fun ! http://www.eventbrite.com/event/70835...


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Kris Neri Good to connect with you here, Caroline. Thanks for accepting my friendship.

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Magical Alienation: A Samantha Brennan and Annabelle Haggerty Magical Mystery


Caroline Leavitt I can't seem to upload my book trailer, but here is the url. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxBE_e...

I hope you all love it!

Caroline


Caroline Leavitt Caroline Leavitt blesses Jodi Picoult for mentioning her in a piece in the UK's guardian about what women writers to read who work with the same themes as Jonathan Franzen. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/...


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