Books by Katherine Heiny and Complete Book Reviews

Single
Single, Carefree, Mellow
Katherine Heiny. Knopf, $22.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-385-35363-2
Dissatisfied teenagers and bored housewives, clueless boyfriends and cuckolded husbands, and 11 variations on the recurrent theme of infidelity and its fallout populate Heiny’s first collection of stories. “The Dive Bar” shows a woman cajoled into...
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Standard Deviation
Standard Deviation
Katherine Heiny. Knopf, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-385-35381-6
This first novel from Heiny (Single, Carefree, Mellow) meanders cheerfully along, making up for its relative lack of action with its humor and insight into characters. Introverted, middle-aged Graham has been married for 12 years to his talkative,...
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Early Morning Riser
Early Morning Riser
Katherine Heiny. Knopf, $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-525-65934-1
This touching and fizzy comic novel by Heiny (Standard Deviation) makes the ordinary extraordinary. Jane, 26, moves to a small town in northern Michigan in 2002 to teach second grade. She immediately falls for Duncan, a charming if not entirely...
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Games and Rituals
Games and Rituals
Katherine Heiny. Knopf, $28 (240p) ISBN 978-0-525-65951-8
Heiny’s funny and touching collection (after Early Morning Riser) finds drama and disruption in the everyday. “Chicken-Flavored and Lemon-Scented” follows a DMV driving examiner who crushes on a coworker, then makes a shocking choice after she’s...
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