Joan Frank

• Nov-2001
• / General Fiction
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Lately, time seems to have taken on an amusing eternal quality. Outer-space time, quick-and-never; a slow wheeling of which Melinda, moving at whatever speed, is more and more aware she has been accorded the briefest, briefest slice. She finds her...

• Sep-2006
• / Literary
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Miss Kansas City is the story of an improbable friendship, set in the tumultuous mid-80s dotcom California, where youthful greed and blinkered innocence arrive intertwined.Friendless and reclusive, Alex Blue commutes two hours each way to a job that ...

• Mar-2007
• / General Fiction
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The Great Far Away commences in the 1970 s, as a group of young people, seeking to go beyond the restrictions and conformism of their parent s generation, coalesce in a small town in Northern California and form a community, determined to help one an...

• Jan-2010
• / General Fiction
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Winner of the 2010 Richard Sullivan Prize in Fiction, Joan Frank’s second story collection, In Envy Country, explores the uncertainties and triumphs of women and men in and out of love and marriage, at varying ages and stages of contemporary Americ...

• Jan-2013
• / General Fiction
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In the tree-nestled Northern California town of Mira Flores, writer Rachel ("an aging typist with an unprofitable hobby") and her Scottish husband Neil prepare dinner for a familiar "crew" of guests - among them Neil's best friend, the burly, handsom...

• Aug-2015
• / General Fiction
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It's been years since the woman in "Biting the Moon" has seen her former lover Felix, a famous, Oscar-winning composer. But upon hearing the news of his sudden death, she mourns his loss by revisiting moments of their former life. Jumpin...

• Apr-2017
• / General Fiction
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EXCERPTBecause of course she feels what he feels. . . . People their age natter along not copping to it but the awareness is billboarded all over their faces -- a wavering, a hesitation, even those who used to crow and jab the air. The tablecloth of ...

• Feb-2020
• / General Fiction
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Buzzfeed News,"15 Small Press Books To Kick Off Your 2020 Reading Season"The Millions, “February Preview: The Millions Most Anticipated”"Death looms in these four sparkling novellas -- thus the book’s sly title -- but until then there’s the w...

• Oct-2020
• / Women's Fiction
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The Outlook for Earthlings traces an unusual, difficult friendship across a lifetime, between women of stunningly opposite natures. Melanie Taper is timid, compelled to obey and venerate authority. Yet in unguarded moments she demonstrates such ...

• / General Fiction
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Winner of the 2010 Richard Sullivan Prize in Fiction, Joan Frank’s second story collection, In Envy Country, explores the uncertainties and triumphs of women and men in and out of love and marriage, at varying ages and stages of contemporary Am...