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Allegra Goodman
(b.1967)Allegra Goodman was born in Brooklyn New York, but grew up in Honolulu, where her parents moved in 1969. Her father, Lenn Goodman taught philosophy at the University of Hawaii. Her mother, Madeleine Goodman, of blessed memory, taught biology and directed the Women's Studies program. She also served as Vice President for Academic Affairs. After 25 years, her parents left Hawaii for Nashville Tennessee , where her mother became the first woman Dean of Arts and Sciences at Vanderbilt and her father accepted a position in the philosophy department. He still teaches at Vanderbilt.
Genres: Literary Fiction
Novels
Choo Choo (1975)
Paradise Park (1991)
The Family Markowitz (1996)
Kaaterskill Falls (1998)
Intuition (2006)
The Other Side of the Island (2008)
The Cookbook Collector (2010)
The Chalk Artist (2017)
Sam (2023)
Paradise Park (1991)
The Family Markowitz (1996)
Kaaterskill Falls (1998)
Intuition (2006)
The Other Side of the Island (2008)
The Cookbook Collector (2010)
The Chalk Artist (2017)
Sam (2023)
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Allegra Goodman recommends
The Road from Belhaven (2024)
Margot Livesey
"This novel casts a spell. The writing here reminds me of Claire Keegan's Foster and Alice Munro at her unsentimental best. Rich with tangible detail, The Road from Belhaven is magical as well, not least in the way it stops time for the reader. I inhaled it in one day."
House of Caravans (2023)
Shilpi Suneja
"A tale of kinship, violence, separation, and reunion, House of Caravans is rich and evocative, filled with unforgettable details of India at the end of colonial rule. The Partition is an enormous subject, and this is marvelous storytelling."
The Resisters (2020)
Gish Jen
"Inventive, funny, and tender, The Resisters is about family, baseball, and the future—but more than anything, it is about freedom, and it is about us—here, now."
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