Jessica Keener. Fiction Studio (NBN, dist.), $13.95 trade paper (232p) ISBN 978-1-936558-26-1
Keener's debut novel is a coming-of-age story that begins, like so many remembrances, with a voice from the past—middle-aged Sarah Kunitz is married with three grown children, but is called back to her own childhood when an unexpected email arrives...
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Jessica Keener. The Story Plant (www.thestoryplant.com), $11.95 trade paper (162p) ISBN 978-161188075-5
If Keener’s first short story collection, following her debut novel Night Swim, can be said to have a theme, it might be women’s struggles to reconcile relationships—be they with friends, family, lovers, or enemies—with changing perspective and...
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Jessica Keener. Algonquin, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-61620-497-6
The second novel from Keener (Night Swim) follows a young American couple as they learn to survive in 1990s Budapest, a city wildly different from their hometown of Stow, Mass. Annie and Will Gordon move to Budapest with their young son Leo so that...
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