Debra Spark

• Mar-2024
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How does art mirror and shape our lives? Can it transcend the boundaries of time, wealth, and circumstance? Debra Spark -- whose previous work the Washington Post described as "richly imaginative" and "real world magic" -- explores these themes in he...

• Oct-2019
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Maria Elena has given up on men until she faints on the blue cobblestone streets of Old San Juan. What she needs is sugar; what she gets is an abandoned wedding cake, a mysterious baker, and his triplet daughters. Is Sandrofo the bereaved widower he ...

• Aug-2016
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For as long Daniella has been married to Joel, they've received phone calls at odd hours, and late at night. Daniella knows the caller as Liesel, Joel's first wife, a woman whose sudden departure devastated her husband. After years of disruptive, ...

• Apr-2012
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From Victorian toy theatres to a painting with a mysterious story behind it to a graphic novelist's battle with the schizophrenia which causes her cartoon characters to march off the page, the novella and six stories in Debra Spark's fourth work of f...

• Jul-2010
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Good for the Jews is a smart, funny, sexy novel set in Madison, Wisconsin, during the Bush administration. Part mystery and part stranger-comes-to town story, Good for the Jews is loosely based on the biblical book of Esther. Like Esther, Debra Spark...

• Apr-1996
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This collection introduced the voices of a new generation of writers whom Bob Shacochis called "the master storytellers of the 21st century." 20 Under 30 stands as a record of their early efforts, a vital document that reveals why they would soon asc...