Karen E. Bender

• Apr-2000
• / General Fiction
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A Los Angeles Times bestseller and one of the Washington Post's best books of the Like Normal People charts the lives of "three richly textured characters whose irreducible idiosyncrasies, griefs, longings, and loves will surely expand our sense of w...

• May-2010
• / General Fiction
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A moving collection of personal essays about the real, human experiences behind the highly politicized issue of reproductive choice. At a time when a woman’s most complex decisions have been reduced to political rhetoric and impersonal theory, and ...

• Jan-2013
• / Literary
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Karen E. Bender burst on to the literary scene a decade ago with her luminous first novel, Like Normal People, which garnered remarkable acclaim.A Town of Empty Rooms presents the story of Serena and Dan Shine, estranged from one another as they sepa...

• Jan-2015
• / General Fiction
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This collection of stories set in contemporary America--a finalist for the National Book Award--herald a work of singular literary merit by an important writer at the height of her power.We think about it every day, sometimes every hour: Money. Who h...

• Nov-2018
• / General Fiction
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“Bender's willingness to go deep, to burrow down into what's right and wrong about 21st century America and Americans, is a mirror that draws us in and does not allow us to look away." -- Los Angeles Times on RefundThe National Book Award finalist...

• May-2025
• / General Fiction
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National Book Award finalist Karen E. Bender returns with a story collection that uses both a realistic and a speculative lens to explore a universal situation -- the ways parents and children separate at different times of lifeGrounded in both the c...