Christie Hodgen

• Jan-2003
• / General Fiction
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In this striking debut collection, Christie Hodgen examines the shifting fortunes of several hard-pressed American families, charting their triumphs and failures with honesty and precision. Humor, loneliness, optimism, and despair commingle in these ...

• Jun-2006
• / Suspense
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It's the early 1980s, and tomboy Frankie Hawthorne's world is overturned when her beloved father a Vietnam amputee who masks depression by playing comedian shoots himself. Frankie's neighborhood, in a down-at-the-heels industrial city near Boston, ha...

• Jul-2010
• / Literary
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Who are the people you'll never forget? For Mary Murphy, there are five, eulogized here in an utterly unforgettable voice. Mary tells the story of her own life -- her childhood spent trading one home and father figure for another, her efforts to trac...

• Sep-2016
• / Literary
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Has anyone ever told you that baseball is more than a game, that it's really a metaphor for life? Have you ever wondered what they meant? This story imagines the answer. A single mother moves to Kansas City with her young daughter and notices tha...

• Apr-2022
• / General Fiction
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Told in two alternating timelines, this novel follows a friendship over twenty-five years.Boy Meets Girl is the story of a twenty-five-year friendship between Sammy Browne (young, idealistic, and broke) and Ben Eisenberg (older, jaded, and almost uni...