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Leah Hager Cohen has written four non-fiction books, including Train Go Sorry and Glass, Paper, Beans, and four novels, including House Lights and The Grief of Others.

She serves as the Jenks Chair in Contemporary American Letters at the College of the Holy Cross, and teaches in the Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review.
 

Genres: General Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
May 2024

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To & Fro
 
Novels
   Heat Lightning (1997)
   Heart, You Bully, You Punk (2003)
   House Lights (2007)
   The Grief of Others (2011)
   No Book But the World (2014)
   Strangers and Cousins (2019)
   To & Fro (2024)
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Leah Hager Cohen recommends
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Closer to Fine (2021)
Jodi S Rosenfeld
"This book radiates goodness. It's warm and smart, funny and brave. It has deep, particular knowledge of people, while at the same time embracing the great, wistful messiness of being human. And it's a sheer pleasure to read: a beautifully paced, searching journey full of surprises and wisdom."
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Shuggie Bain (2020)
Douglas Stuart
"The body - especially the body in pain - blazes on the pages of Shuggie Bain . . . This is the world of Shuggie Bain, a little boy growing up in Glasgow in the 1980s. And this is the world of Agnes Bain, his glamorous, calamitous mother, drinking herself ever so slowly to death. The wonder is how crazily, improbably alive it all is . . . The book would be just about unbearable were it not for the author’s astonishing capacity for love. He’s lovely, Douglas Stuart, fierce and loving and lovely. He shows us lots of monstrous behavior, but not a single monster-only damage. If he has a sharp eye for brokenness, he is even keener on the inextinguishable flicker of love that remains . . . The book leaves us gutted and marveling: Life may be short, but it takes forever."
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The Maze at Windermere (2018)
Gregory Blake Smith
"The Maze at Windermere is an astonishing book—prismatic, continually surprising, daring not only in structure but in its investigation of the human heart. Somehow it manages to be both ruthless and tender. On top of all that, it’s wildly, hurtlingly entertaining."

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Anthologies containing stories by Leah Hager Cohen
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Body (1999)
edited by
Sharon Fiffer and Steve Fiffer

Awards
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2012) : The Grief of Others


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