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Melanie Finn

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Melanie Finn was born and raised in Kenya and the US. She is author of four critically acclaimed "literary thrillers," Away From You (2004), The Gloaming (2016), The Underneath (2018) and The Hare (2021). While working in a remote area of Tanzania as the writer and producer of the DisneyNature flamigo epic, The Crimson Wing, she founded Natron Healthcare, a small charity focused on bringing health education and health service to under resourced communities in that area. She lives with her husband, the wildlife filmmaker Matt Aeberhard, and their twin daughters on a mountainside in northern Vermont. ...more

transphobic?

I finally delved into the reviews for The Hare, and the stars are all over the place. Readers loved it or hated it. However, I was puzzled that so many of those who hated it labeled me/the book transphobic because I include a trans character with whom the main character is briefly at odds. The trans character, Chris, is actually deeply sympathetic and wise. Readers got angry because my main charac Read more of this blog post »
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Average rating: 3.7 · 3,828 ratings · 618 reviews · 8 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Gloaming

3.83 avg rating — 1,632 ratings — published 2014 — 17 editions
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The Hare

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The Underneath

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Away from You

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I was stuck in the reading doldrums when my librarian handed me this trilogy. It is brilliant, profound, gorgeous written. This book blew my mind.
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I was stuck in the reading doldrums when my librarian handed me this trilogy. It is brilliant, profound, gorgeous written. This book blew my mind.
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“This is what you remember about him: not much, but then you have been assiduous in your forgetting. His red sweater, v-neck, cashmere; the clink of ice-cubes in a glass. He is shadow and voice, but you cannot recall his face. He is behind a closed door, in a forbidden room. He is asleep in his armchair, he is asleep in the driveway, asleep in your sandpit, face down, snoring but not harmless, even then. He is shouting, he is whispering, he is close but also remote as if at the end of a long hallway and you cannot hear him. His words never make any sense, he speaks some other language. His hands sometimes spin away from him like windmills, like pinwheels and Catherine wheels, snapping like firecrackers. There must be pain, but you cannot feel it.

Your skin bruises like apples.”
Melanie Finn, Away from You

“At any moment the mundane might turn lethal.”
Melanie Finn, The Gloaming

“Memory is narrative. It is not truth. It is the worst witness.”
Melanie Finn, The Gloaming

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