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Belinda McKeon

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Co. Longford, Ireland

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Belinda McKeon’s debut novel Solace won the 2011 Faber Prize and was voted Irish Book of the Year, as well as being shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

Her second novel, Tender, will be published in the US by Lee Boudreaux Books in February 2016.

Her essays and journalism have appeared in the New York Times, the Paris Review, the Guardian, A Public Space and elsewhere. As a playwright, she has had work produced in Dublin and New York, and is currently under commission to the Abbey Theatre. She lives in Brooklyn and is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Creative Writing at Rutgers University.

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Lee Boudreaux Books“Heart-rending”The New...

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“A dead-on account of youthful obsession…”

Christine Schutt, The New York Times Book Review

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“McKeon is admirably unafraid to push her characters through harrowing extremes of emotion”

Carmela Ciararu, The New York Times

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“Exquisite…Captures something essential about vulnerability, love and longing.”

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Average rating: 3.58 · 3,817 ratings · 556 reviews · 11 distinct works • Similar authors

	Tender 3.59 avg rating — 1,786 ratings — published 2015 — 17 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
	Solace 3.46 avg rating — 1,010 ratings — published 2011 — 14 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
	Being Various: New Irish Short Stories by Lucy Caldwell (Editor), Yan Ge, Paul McVeigh (Goodreads Author) 3.72 avg rating — 754 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	Dubliners 100: Fifteen New Stories Inspired by the Original by Thomas Morris (Editor), Patrick McCabe, Mary Morrissy 3.54 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	A Kind of Compass 3.71 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	The Picador Book of 40: 40 Writers Inspired by a Number by Charlotte Greig, Matteo Pericoli, Kate Clanchy (Goodreads Author) 3.17 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2012 — 5 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
	All Over Ireland: New Irish Short Stories by Deirdre Madden (Editor), Andrew Fox (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Eoin McNamee (Contributor) 3.12 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2015 — 4 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 Rape Essay (Or Mutilated Pages) by Suzanne Scanlon, Belinda McKeon (Foreword) 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — 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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	Reflections on the Pandemic: COVID and Social Crises in the Year Everything Changed by Teresa Politano (Contributor), Patricia Akhimie (Contributor), Marc Aronson (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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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“He was the friend of my life. You know, you only have one friend like that; there can’t be two.”
― Belinda McKeon, Tender

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“with email you did not have the heft of the pages, the life of the ink woven tight into the paper, rushing across it, a thing that had come directly from the other person’s own hand. Or from the pen in their hand, which was almost the same; which was almost like touching them for yourself. In”
― Belinda McKeon, Tender: A Novel

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“peered awhile, as through the keyhole Into my darkened, hushed, safe casket From which (I did not know) I had already lost the treasure. Emmet”
― Belinda McKeon, Tender: A Novel

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