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Susan Conley

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Susan Conley is the author of Landslide (Knopf, February 2021): “a spectacular tale of hardship and healing. Conley has knocked it out of the park," (Lily King, Writers and Lovers). Susan's previous novel Elsey Come Home (Knopf, 2019), was a Most Anticipated/Best Book at Oprah Magazine, Marie Claire Magazine, Amazon Books, Pop Sugar, Huffington Post, Southern Living Magazine, Fodors, The Library Journal, Maine Women’s Magazine, and others.
Susan is also the author of Paris Was the Place (Knopf, 2013), an Amazon Fall Big Books Pick for fiction, an Indie Next Pick, an Elle Magazine Readers Prize Pick, and a People magazine Top Pick. Susan’s memoir, The Foremost Good Fortune (Knopf 2011), was excerpted in the New York Times Magazine and the Da ...more

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	Landslide 3.72 avg rating — 2,743 ratings — published 2021 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paris Was the Place 3.47 avg rating — 1,183 ratings — published 2011 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Foremost Good Fortune 3.66 avg rating — 1,051 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Elsey Come Home 3.14 avg rating — 1,150 ratings — published 2019 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China by Tom Carter (Editor), Dominic Stevenson (Contributor), Peter Hessler (Contributor) 3.60 avg rating — 190 ratings — published 2013 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stop Here, This is the Place by Susan Conley (Goodreads Author), Winky Lewis (Photographer) 4.36 avg rating — 56 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ploughshares Fall 1998 : Fiction Issue by Lorrie Moore (Editor), David Daniel (Editor), Susan Conley (Goodreads Author) 4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Paris Is Always A Good Idea: Voyage Into A Great Book!

A Blog Post By Vicki Lesage

Books about Paris are a surefire hit - from romance to mystery to intrigue, what better way to fantasize about Paris than reading a book about it, preferably over a glass of Bordeaux? I've hand-picked a selection of French-themed books below and to help you decide which ones fit your style, I've asked each author a few questions. Read their responses and check out th

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The House on Vesper Sands

by Paraic O'Donnell

9 votes, 25.7%

Things I Wish I Told My Mother

by Susan Patterson

7 votes, 20.0%

Memory Wall

by Anthony Doerr

6 votes, 17.1%

The Company We Keep

by Frances Itani

5 votes, 14.3%

The Nickel Boys

by Colson Whitehead

5 votes, 14.3%

A Cat's Guide to Bonding with Dragons

by Chris Behrsin

2 votes, 5.7%

Elsey Come Home: A novel

by Susan Conley

1 vote, 2.9%

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“On the girl's brown legs there were many small white scars. I was thinking, Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and the moons on your dress? I thought that would be pretty too, and I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

tags: healing, scars

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