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Kate Walbert
Kate Walbert is the author of Where She Went, a New York Times Notable Book of 1998; The Gardens of Kyoto, winner of the Connecticut Book Award for fiction in 2002; and Our Kind, finalist for the National Book Award in 2004. Her short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Best... show more

Kate Walbert is the author of Where She Went, a New York Times Notable Book of 1998; The Gardens of Kyoto, winner of the Connecticut Book Award for fiction in 2002; and Our Kind, finalist for the National Book Award in 2004. Her short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and numerous other publications. She lives in New York City and Connecticut with her family.
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I am lucky in the way that the women in Kate Walbert’s A Short History of Women are not. Because I was born after more than a century of women’s suffrage and liberation movements, I had so many more paths open to me than the women in this book. I was never prevented from voting. I was never expected...
Listening to the Silence
Listening to the Silence rated it 13 years ago
Kate Walbert is an extraordinary author. She has a way with words, both lyrical and seductive. If she wrote the telephone book, I know that it would be one of the most beautiful books ever written. This is my third novel by Walbert, and each time she amazes me again with the poetry and imagery wi...
Cheryl's books
Cheryl's books rated it 14 years ago
The sum is less than the parts.
elisas8
elisas8 rated it 14 years ago
at first, i thought that she was trying too hard to write in a literary way, but as it got going, i really started enjoying her writing. the story itself was good, but not really what i was looking for in this moment. i might have liked it better if i'd read it some other time, it's hard to say.
attempting obscurity
attempting obscurity rated it 14 years ago
Eh. I'd read some great reviews of this, but I just couldn't get into it. Too disjointed. It traces the paths of 3 or 4 different women along the same genealogical line, great-grandmother down to great-granddaughter. It keeps jumping back and forth, without substantially different voices for the...
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