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Ask that girl who left Tom Lake what she wanted out of life and she would never in a million years have said the Nelson farm in Traverse City, Michigan, but as it turned out, it was all she wanted.
Ann Patchett • Tom Lake: The Sunday Times bestseller - a BBC Radio 2 and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick
those hidden bruises suggested something more – an end to the stifling ordinariness of existence.
Hannah Kent • Burial Rites
The natural world is the rock on which these stories are built, and its overbearing presence informs every sentence.
Ann Patchett • These Precious Days: Essays
Every story must have an Elephant.
Dan Kennedy • Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling
inchoate
Hillary Jordan • Anonymous Sex
She came into your life through an air-conditioner vent and how she will leave is the question that keeps you awake in the few free moments you have to sleep.
Ann Patchett • Bel Canto (P.S.)
she had never been alone to care for her own self one day of her life, nor could it ever have occurred to her that she might become responsible for the well-being of another.
John McGahern • Stoner
how even her daughter’s life sometimes seemed like another area of the household she’d delegated to someone else.
Brit Bennett • The Vanishing Half: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2021
