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Christopher Barzak

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Born

Warren, Ohio, The United States

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Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult

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Christopher Barzak is the author of the Crawford Award winning novel, One for Sorrow, which was made into the Sundance feature film, Jamie Marks is Dead. His second novel, The Love We Share Without Knowing, was a finalist for the Nebula and Tiptree Awards. His third novel, Wonders of the Invisible World, is a Stonewall Honor Book. He is also the author of Before and Afterlives, which won the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Collection. His most current novel is, The Gone Away Place. He grew up in rural Ohio, has lived in a southern California beach town, the capital of Michigan, and has taught English outside of Tokyo, Japan. Currently he teaches fiction writing in the Northeast Ohio MFA program at Youngstown State University.

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	Welcome to Bordertown (Borderland, #8) by Holly Black (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Terri Windling (Contributor), Ellen Kushner (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.07 avg rating — 2,403 ratings — published 2011 — 19 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
	Wonders of the Invisible World 3.79 avg rating — 2,434 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	One for Sorrow 3.76 avg rating — 794 ratings — published 2007 — 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
	The Love We Share Without Knowing: A Novel 3.94 avg rating — 571 ratings — published 2008 — 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
	The Gone Away Place 3.83 avg rating — 320 ratings — published 2018 — 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
	Before and Afterlives 4.28 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 2013	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
	Fantasy Magazine, December 2015: Queers Destroy Fantasy! Special Issue by Christopher Barzak (Goodreads Author) (editor), John Joseph Adams (Goodreads Author) (Publisher), Kai Ashante Wilson 3.89 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	The Language of Moths by Christopher Barzak (Goodreads Author), Paul Michael Garcia (Narrator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2005 — 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
	Birds and Birthdays 4.48 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Monstrous Alterations 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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It’s been forever and a few days since I last posted anything on my website, but I wanted to make sure to note that today my new novel, The Gone Away Place, releases from Knopf Books for Young Readers. I’m excited as always to have a new book go out into the world, where it will hopefully find the exactly right readers who didn’t know they were even waiting for it, as well as those who have been e

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“Don’t ever put your happiness in someone else’s hands. They’ll drop it. They’ll drop it every time.”
― Christopher Barzak, One for Sorrow

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“Nothing is more real than the masks we make to show each other who we are.”
― Christopher Barzak, The Love We Share Without Knowing: A Novel

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“Sometimes you've got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.”
― Christopher Barzak, One for Sorrow

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Which book should the YA LGBT Books Group choose as our Book of the Month with gay main characters for Sept 2016?

True Letters from a Fictional Life

by Kenneth Logan

12 votes 27.3%

Haffling

by Caleb James

11 votes 25.0%

Seven Tears at High Tide

by C.B. Lee

10 votes 22.7%

Wonders of the Invisible World

by Christopher Barzak

7 votes 15.9%

Absolute Brightness

by James Lecesne

4 votes 9.1%

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