Dawn Raffel

• Feb-1995
• / General Fiction
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Dawn Raffel's debut delivers us to the wild spaces of a youth in the Midwest and to the blank terrors of the heart. There is a cold wind blowing through these stories, whose sentences come to us as a rebuke to anything felt. In her flight from sentim...

• Oct-2002
• / General Fiction
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Elise, a young woman with a mysteriously ill son, returns to her childhood home years after running away with a lover. Now destitute, she begins to search for an object hidden somewhere in the house, which has been in a state of disrepair since her m...

• Mar-2010
• / General Fiction
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“Dawn Raffel's stories are like prismatic drops of rain, hanging from the edge of a roof or sliding down a windshield, reflecting an entire world within. The language of motherhood, of adulthood, of childhood -- the language of family and individ...

• Jun-2012
• / General Fiction
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?Sometimes things shatter,? writes Dawn Raffel in The Secret Life of Objects. ?More often they just fade.? But in this evocative memoir, moments from the past do not fade ? they breathe on the page, rendering a striking portrait of a woman through he...

• Jun-2013
• / General Fiction
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A collection of sixteen short stories provides an extraordinary journey into the human soul that explores the uneasiness of individuals as they cope with experiences outside of themselves....

• Jan-2023
• / Historical
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Dawn Raffel's Boundless as the Sky is a book of the invisible histories that repose beneath the cities we inhabit, and the worlds we try to build out of words. The first of its two parts, stories of real and invented cities, some ancient, some dystop...