Karen Brown

• May-2003
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Aleta, a waitress in a diner, is planning her wedding to Delbert, the diner's owner. Corinne, Delbert's interfering mother, reveals information about Aleta that Delbert finds shocking. He disappears and Aleta sets out to find him....

• Dec-2007
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Winner of the Grace Paley Prize in Short FictionIn Pins and Needles, Karen Brown explores the dynamics of love and longing between mother and child, husband and wife, close friends, and virtual strangers, often peeling back the facade of a seemingly ...

• Sep-2012
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Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Karen Brown’s Little Sinners, and Other Stories features a sad, strange mosaic of women and men grappling with the loss and pain of everyday existence, people inhabiting a suburban landscape hau...

• Jul-2013
• / Thriller
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It’s an idyllic New England summer, and Sadie is a precocious only child on the edge of adolescence. It seems like July and August will pass lazily by, just as they have every year before. But one day, Sadie and her best friend play a seemingly har...

• Feb-2017
• / Gothic
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The Clairvoyants is Karen Brown’s most hypnotic novel to date--gothic-inflected psychological suspense that unmasks the secret desires of a young woman with a mystical gift On the family homestead by the sea where she grew up, Martha Mary saw gh...

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