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Mary Beth Keane

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Mary Beth Keane attended Barnard College and the University of Virginia, where she received an MFA. She was awarded a John S. Guggenheim fellowship for fiction writing, and has received citations from the National Book Foundation, PEN America, and the Hemingway Society. She is the author of five novels, including ASK AGAIN, YES, which was a New York Times Best Seller and was translated into twenty-two languages. Her new novel, WHALE HARBOR, is forthcoming September 29, 2026.

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Mary Beth Keane THANK YOU! This comment means a lot to me because being preached at is the thing that most annoys me when reading fiction. I don't think readers ever …moreTHANK YOU! This comment means a lot to me because being preached at is the thing that most annoys me when reading fiction. I don't think readers ever want to be told how to feel, or what to think. I try to avoid describing emotions whenever I can, or directing reader responses in any way. I'd rather all the revelatory emotional stuff to happen inside YOU, and I figure if I pick the right details to report, you'll get there.(less)
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Ask Again, Yes

3.93 avg rating — 204,677 ratings — published 2019 — 54 editions
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The Half Moon

3.40 avg rating — 28,471 ratings — published 2023 — 17 editions
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Fever

3.73 avg rating — 16,303 ratings — published 2013 — 53 editions
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The Walking People

3.90 avg rating — 2,200 ratings — published 2009 — 25 editions
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Whale Harbor

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“We repeat what we don’t repair,”
Mary Beth Keane, Ask Again, Yes

“The thing is, Peter, grown-ups don't know what they're doing any better than kids do. That's the truth.”
Mary Beth Keane, Ask Again, Yes

“They'd both learned that a memory is a fact that has been dyed and trimmed and rinsed so many times that it comes out looking almost unrecognizable to anyone else who was in that room or anyone who was standing on the grass beneath that telephone pole.”
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“In the end, everything will be okay. If it's not okay, it's not yet the end. ~Fernando Sabino, translated from Portuguese”
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“I think that before he turned and walked away from me I said that I was sorry. In this life there are those that apologise and those that do not. I am a person who says sorry if a passer-by stands on my foot.”
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Kristine Mary~Thank you so much for taking me on as a friend. Love your writing and also the books you are reading. Excited for The Half Moon. Looking forward to just seeing the cover. Congratulations 🎉


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