Amy Shearn

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Amy Shearn

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Amy Shearn is the author of the novels How Far Is the Ocean from Here, The Mermaid of Brooklyn, and Unseen City.

Average rating: 3.56 · 1,951 ratings · 403 reviews · 6 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Mermaid of Brooklyn

3.35 avg rating — 915 ratings — published 2013 — 15 editions
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The Lonely Stories

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Unseen City

3.89 avg rating — 284 ratings — published 2020 — 8 editions
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How Far Is the Ocean from Here

3.35 avg rating — 209 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions
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Jewtopia

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3.66 avg rating — 132 ratings — published 2006 — 9 editions
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Dear Edna Sloane

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“You have to live your story before being able to write your story.”
Amy Shearn

“...it had occurred to me that this whole having-children situation was essentially a process of unspooling. Once [my child] had been so close to me that her feet had gotten stuck in my ribs. We lived literally tethered. And then she was born and screamed if she wasn't being nursed or held. But with each day, she unspooled a little farther away--rolling over, eating food, sitting, walking, screaming, 'Go away, Mommy!'--the crimson thread connecting us unraveling more and more as she wandered out into the woods of the world.”
Amy Shearn, The Mermaid of Brooklyn

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message 10: by Bradley

Bradley I hope you are having a good day! =)

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message 9: by Saleh

Saleh Hi.What We Talk About When We Talk About Love?PLZ Answer The Question In My Profile.


Andrea Kulman Have a very Merry Christmas!


message 7: by Roger

Roger Cottrell Hi Amy,
Always great to meet another writer and especially one who likes Balzac,
Take care,
ROGER


Iimani David Hi Amy... Any events planned in the NYC area?


Jeremy I want to apologize for the all the recommendations from me yesterday. I wanted to share the Stoker Award news, and I only pressed the send button once--I'm not sure what happened to create so many messages. Some weird glitch.

Argh...this is terrible...

Again, I'm very sorry.

-Jeremy


Jeremy Here’s wishing you a nifty New Year filled with noiseless noses, neato nicknames, noble Nebraskans, gnarly narcoleptic nebulas, and novel novels about nut-eating narwhals and novercaphobic gnats.

-Jeremy :)

P.S.—I’m currently offering autographed/personally-inscribed copies of my novel, Vacation, with free shipping for those in the US. If there’s anything you could do to help me spread the word about this, I’d really appreciate it. Feel free to click here for details:
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Jeremy Thanks for sharing, Amy! I love Mrs. Dalloway. Some of my favorites are 1984, Slaughterhouse-Five, A Clockwork Orange, and The God of Small Things.

Here’s wishing you a yippee-filled Yuletime overflowing with yard-long yams, yapping yoyo-yanking yetis, yak-milk yeast-cakes, and yellow yarn-yielding year-end yard-gnomes.

-Jeremy :)


message 2: by Amy (last edited Aug 25, 2016 02:11PM)

Amy I don't know! I guess I always say Mrs Dalloway and I think that's probably true.

More importantly: where are these fanciful festivities of which you speak? Phantom footstools? These are things I would like to encounter, but hardly ever do. Where can I find them?!

Why, what's your favorite novel?


message 1: by Jeremy (last edited Aug 25, 2016 02:07PM)

Jeremy Hi Amy!

If you don't mind sharing--I was wondering, what's your favorite novel of all time? Or novels?

Here’s wishing you a fantastic day filled with fabulous friendships, fanciful festivities, and frolicking phantom footstools.

-Jeremy :)


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