Kate Braverman

• Jun-1988
• / General Fiction
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Written nearly a decade after Lithium for Medea, Palm Latitudes, Kate Braverman's second novel and arguably her chef d’oeuvre, explores the intertwined lives of three women who await absolution and revelation in the bougainvillea- and violence-fill...

• Oct-1989
• / General Fiction
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Lithium for Medea is as much a tale of addiction -- to sex, drugs, and dysfunctional family chains -- as it is one of mothers and daughters, their mutual rebellion and unconscious mimicry. Here is the story according to Rose -- the daughter of a narc...

• Oct-1990
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• Jan-1993
• / General Fiction
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Newly arrived at her brother's home in 1960s Los Angeles, teenager Jordan Lerner struggles to deal with her brother's terminal illness, her mother's dalliances with a string of men, and a school where she is considered an outcast...

• Sep-1998
• / General Fiction
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The indigo skies and lush vegetation of the contemporary West Coast belie the damaged souls and desperate alienation that lurk behind fading stucco walls and off the endless highways. The lives of women on the edge and beyond the margins have seldom ...

• Aug-2002
• / Literary
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"I was born in rain and I will die in rain," begins Kate Braverman’s The Incantation of Frida K., an imagined life journey of Frida Kahlo. The book opens and closes inside the mind of Frida K., at 46, on her deathbed, taking us through a kaleidosco...

• Mar-2018
• / General Fiction
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Haunting new stories about girls on the brink of adulthood, women on the verge of breakdowns, and families undone by past deceptions.

"Kate Braverman is a writer of astonishing versatility and lyricism. Her stories are brilliantly rendered...