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Helene Wecker

Helene Wecker grew up in Libertyville, Illinois, a small town north of Chicago, and received her Bachelor's in English from Carleton College in Minnesota. After graduating, she worked a number of marketing and communications jobs in Minneapolis and Seattle before deciding she wanted to write something longer than a press release. Accordingly, she moved to New York to pursue a Master's in fiction writing at Columbia University. She now lives near San Francisco with her husband and daughter. Her first novel, THE GOLEM AND THE JINNI, will be published in April 2013 by HarperCollins.

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Fantasy, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Helene Wecker's Books

Story Behind the Book : Volume 4 (Essays on Writing and Editing Fiction) - Andrew Taylor, Lynn Shepherd, Helene Wecker, James Robertson, Ellen Ullman, Felix J. Palma, Alex Bledsoe, Pietro Grossi, Kristijan Meic, Ivana Steiner

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Lora Hates Spam rated it

4 years ago

text The Golem and the Jinni

by Helene Wecker My expectations of this story might have been a little inflated because I kept hearing how good it was, and I did enjoy it, but I didn't love it as much as I expected to. It was a good story and culturally interesting, but I just didn't connect with any of the characters. Of all o...

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Fangirl Moments and My Two Cents rated it

8 years ago

text The Golem and the Jinni: A Novel

This is amazing writing. I have never read a story quite like it. It brings so much in to question, beliefs, faiths, religions, etc. It takes place during a time when people had to go between Europe and America by ship and women didn't go around unchaperoned. It mostly has a realistic feel with ...

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Memories From Books on Booklikes rated it

8 years ago

text The Golem and the Jinni

The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker is the story of two mythological characters who find that they are more alike than different and who find acceptance in each other. Within this structure, this book can be read at so many different levels and interpreted for so many different themes – fantasy...

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Traditional Fantasy rated it

8 years ago

text Not enough magic

I heard so much about this book that I couldn't wait to read it. I was expecting a lot of magic and wonderful things, but it wasn't really what I expected. It was an okay story and an interesting concept, but the characters didn't really appeal to me enough to get wrapped up in the story. The prem...

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Shiftyj1 rated it

8 years ago

text The Golem and the Jinni

I listened to this one on audio and it was amazing. The narrator George Guidall totally nailed it. Couldn’t have picked a better person to do the audio for this one. The story itself was excellent and had a real Gaiman-esque feel to it. The characters were superbly drawn and there was plenty of back...

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