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Lauren Belfer


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Lauren Belfer grew up in Buffalo, where she was educated at the school that forms the model for her heroine's establishment. She has an MFA from Columbia University, and now lives in New York with her husband and son.

Genres: Historical
 
Novels
   City of Light (1999)
   A Fierce Radiance (2010)
   And After the Fire (2016)
   Ashton Hall (2022)
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"[A] sweeping epic of courage, perseverance, love, and family."
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The Frozen River (2023)
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"With exquisite prose and gripping immediacy, Ariel Lawhon recreates the extraordinary story of Martha Ballard, a real-life yet little-known midwife and healer in Maine who kept a diary in the years after the American Revolution. The Frozen River is so vivid, so textured and multilayered, that I felt I'd opened a door and entered post-revolutionary America, walking beside Lawhon's compelling characters in a time and place riven by hardship, disease, and misogyny, but also intense love and searing natural beauty. This novel was unlike anything I'd read before, and it left me awe-struck."
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The Daughters of Madurai (2023)
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"Bursting with the vivid colors, sounds, and scents of India past and present, The Daughters of Madurai is a searing, heartrending story about the fierce love between mothers and daughters. This novel gripped me from the opening page. It continues to haunt me."

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