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Joan Silber is the author of three previous books. She won the PEN/Hemingway Award for her first novel, HOUSEHOLD WORDS, and has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her short fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Ploughshares, the Paris Review, and other magazines. She lives in New York City and teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   Household Words (1980)
   In the City (1987)
   Lucky Us (2001)
   The Size of the World (2008)
   Improvement (2017)
   Secrets of Happiness (2021)
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Collections
   In My Other Life (2000)
   Ideas of Heaven (2004)
   Fools (2013)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   As Long as It Takes (2023)
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Joan Silber recommends
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Leaving (2024)
Roxana Robinson
"A remarkable novel-a quietly expansive story, in which elements of love and family coalesce and escalate into tragedy. Leaving has a plot in which surprises abound, as broken conventions lead to menace and threat. A triumph of a book."
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Terrace Story (2023)
Hilary Leichter
"Terrace Story is brilliantly inventive, enchanting, disturbing, beautiful, and unlike anything I've ever read. I loved what it does with time--gone and not gone, lost and found where we never put it. Really extraordinary."
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The Apology (2023)
Jimin Han
"What a superb story this is, unweaving the tangle of family history - and the wrongheaded honor that has walled out love - as this remarkable novel moves from the unguessable to the expansively imagined. It's a maze of leaps - across boundaries beyond the known - as one woman grapples with the impossible question of how wrongs can be righted. A memorable and wonderfully original book."

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Anthologies containing stories by Joan Silber
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The Best Short Stories 2021 (2021)
(O. Henry Prize Stories)
edited by
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The Best American Short Stories 2015 (2015)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
T C Boyle

Awards
National Book Award for Fiction Best Book nominee (2004) : Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories
PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Book nominee (2014) : Fools
PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Book winner (2018) : Improvement


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