Lily King
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"With Writers & Lovers and Euphoria, Lily King's books catapulted onto bestseller and best-of-the-year lists across the country, further cementing her reputation as one of the most "brilliant" (NYTBR), "wildly talented" (Chicago Tribune), and beloved authors in contemporary fiction. Now, for the first time, King collects ten of her finest short stories-half published in leading literary magazines and half brand new-opening fresh realms of discovery...
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2020.
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"Blindsided by her mother's sudden death, and wrecked by a recent love affair, Casey Peabody has arrived in Massachusetts in the summer of 1997 without a plan. Her mail consists of wedding invitations and final notices from debt collectors. A former child golf prodigy, she now waits tables in Harvard Square and rents a tiny, moldy room at the side of a garage where she works on the novel she's been writing for six years. At thirty-one, Casey is still...
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In The English Teacher, King pens an emotionally devastating tale of a mother and son-and the turns of fate that threaten their carefully constructed existence. English teacher and single mother Vida Avery has insulated herself and her 15-year-old son from almost all outside influence. But her sudden marriage to Tom Belou-and the subsequent integration into Tom's family-radically alters the course of all of their lives.