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The Other Family
Carey brings her sharp eye, humor and smooth, understated style to this accomplished first novel about a girl's careful look at the family she believes is so much happier than her own, fulfilling the promise of her enthusiastically received debut work, Good Gossip.
207 pages, Hardcover
First published August 13, 1996
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Jacqueline Carey
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From the author's website:
Jacqueline Carey grew up in Connecticut and graduated from Swarthmore College in 1977. Since then she has lived mostly in New York City and Montana.
Her short stories first appeared in The New Yorker in 1986. Her work has also been published in Elle, Allure, WigWag, the Village Voice, and the New York Times Magazine. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review, and she used to write a mystery column for Salon.com. She received a Guggenheim fellowship to write THE CROSSLEY BABY.
Recently she moved to Montclair, New Jersey, with her husband, writer Ian Frazier, and their two children.
From the author's website:
Jacqueline Carey grew up in Connecticut and graduated from Swarthmore College in 1977. Since then she has lived mostly in New York City and Montana.
Her short stories first appeared in The New Yorker in 1986. Her work has also been published in Elle, Allure, WigWag, the Village Voice, and the New York Times Magazine. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review, and she used to write a mystery column for Salon.com. She received a Guggenheim fellowship to write THE CROSSLEY BABY.
Recently she moved to Montclair, New Jersey, with her husband, writer Ian Frazier, and their two children.
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June 12, 2011
Another one that MAYBE only a woman would like. I just didn't get the storyline. Maybe her mystery would be better. But this one again I could hardly finish.
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