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Tara Conklin
Goodreads Author
Born
in Christianstead, St. Croix, The United States
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November 2009
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The House Girl
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2013
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24 editions
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The Last Romantics
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2019
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This is the Place: Women Writing about Home
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Community Board: A Novel
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Pangea An Anthology of Stories from Around the Globe
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2012
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Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Volume 3
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2010
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"A dazzling, riveting, epic and emotional family drama. The author grabs hold of you in the opening pages, set 60 years hence, so you start reading, feeling a little suspicious (Wait...is this science fiction? I don't like science fiction!) and off..."
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"This is a very different story than Conklin's first novel, The House Girl, but I liked it even more (which is saying something). It takes on family dynamics and loss in a way that is nuanced and lyrical. The characters grow in your mind, and stay..."
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"I remember the end of the movie Still Alice, a hauntingly beautiful scene. The Juliane Moore character, suffering from the early stages of dementia, has read a play written by her daughter, played by Kristin Stewart. No one else in the family has..."
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“I was wrong to tell you that this is a story about the failures of love. No, it is about real love, true love. Imperfect, wretched, weak love. No fairy tales, no poetry. It is about the negotiations we undertake with ourselves in the name of love. Every day we struggle to decide what to give away and what to keep, but every day we make that calculation and we live with the results. This then is the true lesson: there is nothing romantic about love. Only the most naive believe it will save them. Only the hardiest of us will survive it.
And yet, And yet! We believe in love because we want to believe in it. Because really what else is there, amid all our glorious follies and urges and weaknesses and stumbles? The magic, the hope, the gorgeous idea of it. Because when the lights go out and we sit waiting in the dark, what do our fingers seek? Who do we teach for?”
― The Last Romantics
And yet, And yet! We believe in love because we want to believe in it. Because really what else is there, amid all our glorious follies and urges and weaknesses and stumbles? The magic, the hope, the gorgeous idea of it. Because when the lights go out and we sit waiting in the dark, what do our fingers seek? Who do we teach for?”
― The Last Romantics
“Let your heart lead you, do not be afraid, for there will be much to regret if reason and sense and fear are your only markers”
― The House Girl
― The House Girl
“Over the years she had learned to fold down rising emotion just as she would fold the clean bedsheets, the sheet growing smaller and tighter with each pass until all that remained of that wide wrinkled expanse of cotton was a hard closed-in square.”
― The House Girl
― The House Girl
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