Jennie Nash

• Nov-2012
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It's 1952 in New York City -- the height of the Red Scare. When the sheltered secretary of a prominent book editor becomes obsessed with the story of a glamorous French lipstick, she becomes convinced that it was the story she was born to write. To d...

• May-2010
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A photo of her sons. A doormat from Target. Twenty-three tubs of fabric. Somehow it comforts Lily to list the things she lost when a wildfire engulfed the Santa Barbara avocado ranch she shared with her husband, Tom. He didn't make it out either. Hi...

• Feb-2009
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Jennie Nash's first novel, The Last Beach Bungalow, was praised as "a wonder." Now, in lyrical and moving prose, she gives us a story about three generations of artists who are grappling with the burden of talent and the limits of love. Claire's fat...

• Feb-2008
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A poignant novel about a woman who survives breast cancer, only to struggle with what comes next: living. After five cancer-free years, April Newton should be celebrating, but instead she's restless. She feels her husband slipping away, and though t...

• Jan-2002
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Breast cancer made Jennie Nash a wise old woman at the age of thirty-six. She learned, among other things, that her instincts are good, her kids are really resilient, and that, in the fight against breast cancer, the journey for patients, family, and...