Helen Benedict

• Feb-1990
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• Mar-1996
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Told in shifting first-person narratives, this compelling novel vividly evokes the the lives of the women and children in one of New York City's toughest barrios, showcasing a variety of memorable characters. "An authentic account of hardship and fai...

• Oct-2000
• / Literary
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A tour de force of storytelling, The Sailor's Wife is a powerful glimpse at an ancient culture, where a modern woman is plunked down in a world totally alien to her. Joyce Perlman, a nave young woman from a Miami suburb, meets and marries a Greek mer...

• Sep-2007
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Madge is biraccial and her light brown skin has made her feel like an outcast, until she spends a week with her cousin in New York City. There she befriends a small boy with skin the color of her own and no one to care for him. On impulse, Madge take...

• Nov-2009
• / Literary
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“Not since Lord of the Flies has a novelist written with such perceptiveness about the potential for harm that lurks within the innocence of childhood.” -- Paula Sharp, author of Crows over a Wheatfield "A wonderful novel and a true page-turner,...

• Aug-2011
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Nineteen-year-old Kate Brady joined the army to bring honor to her family and democracy to the Middle East. Instead, she finds herself in a forgotten corner of the Iraq desert in 2003, guarding a makeshift American prison. There, Kate meets Naema Jas...

• Oct-2017
• / Literary
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National Reading Group Month "Great Group Reads" selection"[Helen Benedict] has emerged as one of our most thoughtful and provocative writers of war literature." -- David Abrams, author of Fobbit and Brave Deeds, at the Quivering Pen"No one writes w...

• Apr-2024
• / Literary
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Set in 2018 against the ironic backdrop of an overcrowded, fetid refugee camp on the beautiful, Homeric island of Samos in Greece, The Good Deed follows the stories of five women: Amina, who is nineteen and has just been released from one of Bashar a...