Kathleen Alcott

• Sep-2012
• / Literary
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An extraordinary debut novel that challenges the definition of family and explores the intricate ties that bind us togetherIda grew up with Jackson and James -- where there was “I” there was a “J.” She can’t recall a time when she didn’...

• Aug-2015
• / Literary
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A beautifully wrought story of an ad hoc family and the crisis they must overcome together. Edith is a widowed landlady who rents apartments in her Brooklyn brownstone to an unlikely collection of humans, all deeply in need of shelter. Crippled i...

• Mar-2017
• / Literary
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This year's six shortlisted stories for the world's richest short story prize, the £30,000 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award.The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award is the world's most prestigious and richest short story prize, worth £30,000 to the...

• May-2019
• / Historical
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Ecuador, 1969: An American expatriate, Fay Fern, sits in the corner of a restaurant, she and her young son Wright turned away from the television where Vincent Kahn becomes the first man to walk on the moon. Years earlier, Fay and Vincent meet at ...

• Jul-2023
• / General Fiction
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One of The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023 • One of LitHub's 38 Best Books We read in 2023 Longlisted for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award "Best short stories for an instant escape." -- Oprah Daily From an “exquisite” (The New ...