Maile Meloy, author portrait
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Maile Meloy

Maile Meloy is the author of the novels Liars and Saints and A Family Daughter; the short story collections Half in Love and Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It (named one of the "10 Best Books of 2009" by the New York Times Book Review); and a bestselling middle-grade trilogy. Her fiction has won the Paris Review's Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award, and the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Meloy was shortlisted for the UK's Orange Prize for Fiction and chosen as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists.
El pulpo se escapa
The Octopus Escapes
Do Not Become Alarmed
The After-Room
Devotion
The Apprentices
The Apothecary
Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It

Books

El pulpo se escapa
The Octopus Escapes
Do Not Become Alarmed
The After-Room
Devotion
The Apprentices
The Apothecary
Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It

Books for Women’s History Month

In honor of Women’s History Month in March, we are sharing books by women who have shaped history and have fought for their communities. Our list includes books about women who fought for racial justice, abortion rights, equality in the workplace, and ranges in topics from women in politics and prominent women in history to

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