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Joanna Rakoff


(Joanna Smith Rakoff)

Joanna is a freelance writer and editor, who has taught English at Baruch College of CUNY. She writes regularly for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Newsday, The Guardian, Vogue, and otherwell-known papers and magazines. She lives in New York with her husband, poet Evan Smith Rakoff.
 
 
Novels
   A Fortunate Age (2009)
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Collections
   One for Each Night (2023) (with others)
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"Jo Piazza's latest is everything a person could want in a novel: Instantly gripping, gorgeously written, ingeniously plotted, filled with complicated, fascinating characters, both timely and timeless, and, of course, underpinned by Piazza's characteristic wit, intellect, and warmth. I couldn't put it down and now can't stop thinking about it. Remarkable, astonishing, and just plain wonderful."
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Days of Wonder (2024)
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"Caroline Leavitt is a national treasure. I've been reading her novels from the very first and I can say that no one writes about the bond of motherhood like Leavitt. I loved Days of Wonder and simply couldn't put it down. A warm, big-hearted story of love and longing, the novel gets at the very essence of what it means to be a mother and a daughter, a friend and a wife. Like all of Leavitt's novels, this latest offers the most profound narrative pleasures. Days of Wonder may be her best yet."
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The Possibilities (2023)
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"The Possibilities explores motherhood from a place of such raw, animalistic love and with such emotional veracity that I, at times, had to put the book down and take deep breaths. It calls to mind Octavia Butler, Madeleine L'Engle, and most of all Philip K. Dick."

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