Rebecca Brown
Rebecca Brown is the author of seven novels, including The End of Youth, The Terrible Girls, and What Keeps Me Here, and her short stories are widely anthologized. Her novel The Gifts of the Body won a Lambda Literary Award and has been translated into several languages. Brown divides her time...
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Rebecca Brown is the author of seven novels, including The End of Youth, The Terrible Girls, and What Keeps Me Here, and her short stories are widely anthologized. Her novel The Gifts of the Body won a Lambda Literary Award and has been translated into several languages. Brown divides her time between Seattle and Vermont, where she is a faculty member in the Master of Fine Arts program at Goddard College.
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The plot of Flying at Night, the character driven debut novel by Rebecca L. Brown is a relatable one. It is about a family redefining itself and rediscovering itself in light of a medical crisis and a medical diagnosis. The book is touching, and the ending is a surprise to me. In hindsight, I can se...
Fly at Night was emotionally pulling. I felt for Piper, I disliked her mother, I wanted to give her husband a guiding hand, and I wanted to hug her son. Piper was overwhelmed. Her mother was selfish, although with the abusive lifestyle she lived in she was due to be selfish. Her husba...
I find it difficult to write about this book. It's emotional and moving, but the prose is sparse, the stories are highly abstracted, and the grief, heartache, and longing are expressed so physically it's almost unbearable. It made me so uncomfortable I couldn't put it down. But then again, it's so b...
Read it as a YA. Thought it was really too fictional for reality. Turns out the author was delusional.
this collection of short stories is far and away better than the first in the series (i think it's the last of 3, at least with these editors). there were only a couple of stories that i wanted to skip and many that led me to check out other works by a number of the authors.
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