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Susie Meserve

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Boston, The United States

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Poetry, Biographies & Memoirs

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Susie Meserve is a poet, essayist, blogger, and mother. Her debut poetry collection, Little Prayers, won the 2018 Blue Light Book Award from San Francisco–based publisher Blue Light Press. Her personal essays have appeared in the New York Times, Elle, Salon.com, and the book anthology Show Me All Your Scars: True Stories of Living with Mental Illness. Susie lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two young sons.

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Average rating: 4.21 · 259 ratings · 41 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Faith really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2008	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
	Little Prayers it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 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
	Show Me All Your Scars: True Stories of Living with Mental Illness by Lee Gutkind (Editor), Karen Wolk Feinstein (Foreword), Andy Smart (Goodreads Author) 4.20 avg rating — 252 ratings — published 2016 — 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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High, Low, Buffalo: Surviving The Spring of the Virus

We made it through two weeks of homeschooling, two weeks of working from home with two kids around, two weeks of The Spring of the Virus. Even if the Shelter in Place order lasts into summer, into fallGod forbidit will be springtime in my mind when my future wise self and I look back on []

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The word that kept coming to me as I read this book was disturbing, and by that I don't necessarily mean that the book is scary or unsettling—though in some ways it is—but that it disturbed my equilibrium. Beauty is always entwined with grief, loveli ...more
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I read everything Curtis Sittenfeld writes—love her imagination and clarity of prose. I’m not sure I liked this book quite as much as her amazing novel about Laura Bush, but it was great, and vivid, and sexy, and if there was something bare bones abo ...more
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I read everything Curtis Sittenfeld writes—love her imagination and clarity of prose. I’m not sure I liked this book quite as much as her amazing novel about Laura Bush, but it was great, and vivid, and sexy, and if there was something bare bones abo ...more
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This should be required reading for everyone in America.
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I always feel so cliche when I rate an incredibly popular book with five stars, but I thoroughly enjoyed The Goldfinch and as I read, it gathered momentum for me and became something that colored my everyday existence in a kind of gold light. As some ...more
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