Ann Packer

• Nov-2025
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"Profound and moving and real." -- Andrew Sean Greer"Some Bright Nowhere is a novel that draws you in deeply and holds you there. Wonderful." -- Meg WolitzerThe bestselling, beloved author returns with her first novel in over a decade, an intimate an...

• May-2015
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A Vintage Shorts "Short Story Month" Selection   Virginia, a copywriter at an ad agency, looks around her office one day and realizes that everyone -- well, nearly everyone -- is pregnant.  Can she be happy for them?  "Babies," includ...

• Apr-2015
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From the New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of The Dive From Clausen's Pier, a sweeping, masterful new novel that explores the secrets and desires, the remnant wounds and saving graces of one California family, over the course of five d...

• Apr-2011
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A wife struggles to make sense of her husband's sudden disappearance. A mother mourns her teenage son through the music collection he left behind. A woman shepherds her estranged parents through her brother's wedding and reflects on the year her fami...

• Sep-2007
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Ann Packer's debut novel, The Dive from Clausen's Pier, was a nationwide best seller that established her as one of our most gifted chroniclers of the interior lives of women. Now, in her long-awaited second novel, she takes us on a journey into a li...

• Jan-2003
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With humor, wisdom and tenderness, Ann Packer offers ten short stories about women and men who discover that life's greatest surprises may be found in that which is most familiar."Graceful and effortless, yet as controlled and purposeful as a nest-bu...

• Apr-2002
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • How much do we owe the people we love? Is it a sign of strength or weakness to walk away from someone in need? These questions lie at the heart of Ann Packer's intimate and emotionally thrilling novel."Packer knows just how to...