Leah Hager Cohen

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Our next books: May 15- The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow by Rita Leganski June 19- The Book of Jonas by Stephen Dau July 17- The grief of others by Leah Hager Cohen

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“Hester Kaplan brings such fresh language and uncanny insight to whatever her keen eye lands upon, it’s as if she creates it anew. Everything, everyone, every inflection in The Tell is charged with precision, feeling, and consequence.” Leah Hager Cohen, author of The grief of others

"This is a wonderful first novel—passionate and brave. It removes the skin of an era, and questions so many of the tropes that hover around 19th century southern American literature. It was Faulkner who, in the 20th century, talked about the voice of fiction being inexhaustible. Taylor Polites has extended our narrative reach into yet another time. A fascinating, genre-subverting historical novel. "

Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin

Hester Kaplan is the author of The Edge of Marriage, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, and Kinship Theory, a novel. Her short stories have been included in The Best American Short Stories series. She teaches in Lesley University's MFA Program in Creative Writing and lives in Rhode Island.

Taylor M. Polites is a novelist living in Providence, Rhode Island with his small Chihuahua, Clovis. Polites’ first novel, The Rebel Wife, was published in February 2012 by Simon & Schuster. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from Wilkes University. In 2009, he was awarded the Norris Church Mailer Fellowship from Wilkes University. The Rebel Wife was one of O Magazine's top ten picks for February 2012, an Okra Pick from the Southern Independent Booksellers Association, and one of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's best Southern books of 2012.

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