Diane Lefer

• Nov-1994
• / Literary
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These sharp-edged, uncompromising, often comic stories take on the daunting complexities of our much afflicted and logic-resistant world. From the multiracial streets of New York City to Mexican villages caught up in social change, here are people of...

• Jul-2000
• / General Fiction
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Diane Lefer's stories are pure, and purely wonderful, surprises. Odd situations that occur at the intersection of hope and fate. Protagonists peculiar in the best sense -- specific, instantly recognizable, new friends. Each of these stories demonstra...

• Feb-2001
• / General Fiction
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Two households on a back road: a devastated family and an apocalyptic cult. Here are people driven to the edge, forced to draw the line that can't be crossed and learn what happens after you cross it....

• Apr-2007
• / General Fiction
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“From the world that could not be saved, the storyteller salvages small, strange stuff and assembles it into a narrative of alarming beauty and mystery and sadness.” -- from the introduction by Carole Maso

Southern California: land of di...

• Mar-2013
• / General Fiction
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New York City, 1992. For Holly, it's the summer when the city she's lived in all her life changes past recognition. And the funerals are about to begin. "Let's get this out of the way," she says. "I'm a white woman who likes black men." That includes...

• Sep-2013
• / Historical
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It's dangerous for a girl to be a mathematical prodigy in eighteenth-century Rome. Daniela Messo and her father withdraw from the world, but Giuseppe Balsamo arrives with his occult magic and the claim that Daniela has inherited the secrets of a long...

• Jan-2015
• / General Fiction
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After Rae's ear is shot off by a jittery security guard at the health food store, the insurance settlement allows her to take a year off from teaching. She spends it volunteering at the Los Angeles Zoo. These days, except for her best friend Jennie, ...

• Sep-2021
• / General Fiction
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A research institute in the Mojave Desert falls under suspicion in the aftermath of 9/11. With skeptical eye and fearless ear to the ground, Diane Lefer explores the human cost of the security state. In a novel spanning cultures and continents, an in...