Helen Benedict

• Feb-1990
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• Mar-1996
• / General Fiction
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Told in shifting first-person narratives, this compelling novel vividly evokes the the lives of the women and children in one of New York City's toughest barrios, showcasing a variety of memorable characters. "An authentic account of hardship and fai...

• Oct-2000
• / Literary
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A tour de force of storytelling, The Sailor's Wife is a powerful glimpse at an ancient culture, where a modern woman is plunked down in a world totally alien to her. Joyce Perlman, a nave young woman from a Miami suburb, meets and marries a Greek mer...

• Sep-2007
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Madge is biraccial and her light brown skin has made her feel like an outcast, until she spends a week with her cousin in New York City. There she befriends a small boy with skin the color of her own and no one to care for him. On impulse, Madge take...

• Nov-2009
• / Literary
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A British diplomat drags his wife and children to the Seychelles in 1960, but it is not a paradise for all: “Wonderful . . . A true page-turner” (Joan Silber).   When her husband, Rupert is posted to the remote Seychelle Islan...

• Aug-2011
• / Literary
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Nineteen-year-old Kate Brady joined the army to bring honor to her family and democracy to the Middle East. Instead, she finds herself in a forgotten corner of the Iraq desert in 2003, guarding a makeshift American prison. There, Kate meets Naema Jas...

• Oct-2017
• / Literary
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National Reading Group Month "Great Group Reads" selection"[Helen Benedict] has emerged as one of our most thoughtful and provocative writers of war literature." -- David Abrams, author of Fobbit and Brave Deeds, at the Quivering Pen"No one writes w...

• Apr-2024
• / Literary
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Set in 2018 against the backdrop of an overcrowded, fetid refugee camp on the beautiful Greek island of Samos, The Good Deed follows the stories of four women living in the camp and an American tourist who comes to Samos to escape her own dark secret...