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Olga Grushin

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in Moscow, Russian Federation

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Olga Grushin is the author of four novels - The Charmed Wife, The Dream Life of Sukhanov, The Line, and Forty Rooms - as well as short stories, literary criticism, essays, and other works. She has been awarded the 2007 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and named one of the Best Young American Novelists by Granta magazine; her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New York Times, Granta, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Partisan Review, Vogue, and other publications.

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Olga Grushin's Blog

Books, art, tea

To my readers and fellow writers: I am trying a new social media experiment these days, and can be found on Twitter, @olgagrushin, posting daily book and art musings, much Russian poetry, random thoughts about this and that, and photographs of my numerous teacups. Please check me out/reach out/follow on Twitter.

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	The Charmed Wife 3.20 avg rating — 2,088 ratings — published 2021 — 13 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 Dream Life of Sukhanov 3.89 avg rating — 1,553 ratings — published 2005 — 34 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
	Forty Rooms 3.87 avg rating — 1,503 ratings — published 2016 — 11 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 Line 3.66 avg rating — 571 ratings — published 2010 — 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
	Granta em português 1: Os melhores jovens escritores norte-americanos by Ian Jack (Editor), Karen Russell (Goodreads Author), Daniel Alarcón (Goodreads Author) 3.57 avg rating — 162 ratings — published 2007 — 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
	Why I Like This Story by Jackson R. Bryer (Editor), Diana Wagman (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Doris Betts (Contributor) 3.45 avg rating — 22 ratings — 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
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“In anyone's life there can be only a few such moments - moments when a long, ringing hush fills your hearing, the world stands still as if under a magic spell, and thoughts and feelings course freely through your being, traversing the whole of eternity in the duration of a minute, so that when time resumes and you return from whatever nameless, dazzling void you briefly inhabited, you find yourself changed, changed irrevocably, and from then on, whether you want it or not, your life flows in a different direction. This was such a moment for me.”
― Olga Grushin, The Dream Life of Sukhanov

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“.. or a saint who had spent all his years preparing for his grand entry into heaven, only to discover on his deathbed that heaven was not some blue expanse full of angelic string quartets and opalescent clouds, but an eternity granted for reliving one's happiest moments, and that he had none to remember;”
― Olga Grushin

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“Whenever you come to a fork in the road, always choose the harder path, otherwise the path of least resistance will be chosen for you.”
― Olga Grushin, Forty Rooms

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