Mary Karr's poems and essays have won Pushcart prizes and
have appeared in magazines such as the New Yorker, The
Atlantic, and Parnassus. She was a Bunting Fellow at
Radcliffe College, and is now the Jesse Truesdale Peck Professor of
English Literature at Syracuse.
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This is the "delightful" (People) New York Times bestseller that's earned raves from reviewers everywhere is the story of three sisters who love each other, but just don't happen to like each other very much…
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Set in New York City in 1938, this is a sophisticated and entertaining debut novel about an irresistible young woman with an uncommon sense of purpose. Read an excerpt. Listen to a podcast.