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Sandra Newman is co-author of How Not To Write A Novel. She is the author of the novels The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done and Cake, as well as the memoir Changeling. She has taught writing and literature at Temple University, Chapman University, and the University of Colorado, and has published fiction and non-fiction in Harper's, Granta, and London's Observer, Telegraph, and Mail on Sunday newspapers, among other journals and newspapers.
 

Genres: Science Fiction, Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done (2002)
   Cake (2006)
   The Country of Ice Cream Star (2014)
   The Heavens (2019)
   The Men (2022)
   Julia (2023)
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Drowning Practice (2022)
Mike Meginnis
"Drowning Practice is a magical, enigmatic novel about a society haunted by the foreknowledge of its imminent death. It's beautiful and often very funny but most of all profoundly compassionate, and also has one of the most insightful depictions I've ever seen of an abusive relationship. I loved it."
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Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World (2022)
Sasha Fletcher
"A big-hearted, brainy, garrulous novel that is maybe the truest document yet of our life in the neverending end times. Stylistically, it's a marvel. Every page is full of sentences that deliver a knock-out punch. It's also that rare love story that tells you what love is like from the inside, on the long snowy Sundays of dystopian America, when lovers really get down to business. Fletcher talks about how 'the city always leaves the lights on at night. In case the angels come.' This book is one of the lights left on in case the angels come."
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The Great Mistake (2021)
Jonathan Lee
"The Great Mistake is a great novel of 19th-century New York and the meaning of success, which makes the quietest moments of its hero's life as memorable as the bordellos and the murders. A magical escape from the 21st century that sent me back feeling wiser and more hopeful."

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Awards
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2015) : The Country of Ice Cream Star


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