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Monica Hesse

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Monica Hesse is the national bestselling author of the true crime love story American Fire, and the historical mystery novel Girl in the Blue Coat, which has been translated into a dozen languages and won the 2017 Edgar award in the Young Adult category. She is a feature writer for the Washington Post, where she has been a winner of the Society for Feature Journalism's Narrative Storytelling award, and a finalist for a Livingston Award and a James Beard Award. Monica lives in Maryland. with her husband and a brainiac dog.
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Average rating: 4.0 · 78,344 ratings · 9,306 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	Girl in the Blue Coat 4.04 avg rating — 41,586 ratings — published 2016 — 18 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
	They Went Left 4.24 avg rating — 14,624 ratings — published 2020 — 27 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
	American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land 3.79 avg rating — 16,131 ratings — published 2017 — 11 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 War Outside 3.77 avg rating — 5,143 ratings — published 2018 — 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
	The Brightwood Code 3.81 avg rating — 591 ratings — published 2024 — 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
	Stray (Stray, #1) 3.83 avg rating — 205 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Burn (Stray, #2) 3.95 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2014 — 5 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
	Het meisje in de blauwe jas 4.05 avg rating — 21 ratings	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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“My heart will still ache sometimes. Maybe more often than not. I think it's possible to be healed without feeling whole.”
― Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat

tags: healing, life

36 likes

“But when it comes down to it, we all die alone.”
― Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat

tags: death, death-and-dying, loss

24 likes

“Maybe we can't barter our feelings away, trading good deeds for bad ones and expecting to become whole.”
― Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat

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Polls

July BoTM "Color in Title" ~ Final Poll

The Peach Keeper

by Sarah Addison Allen

16 votes, 34.0%

Girl in the Blue Coat

by Monica Hesse

11 votes, 23.4%

A Spool of Blue Thread

by Anne Tyler

9 votes, 19.1%

Half of a Yellow Sun

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

8 votes, 17.0%

Written in Red

by Anne Bishop

3 votes, 6.4%

47 total votes

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