Suzanne Berne’s first novel, A Crime in the Neighborhood, won the Orange Prize for Fiction and was a New York Times Notable Book, as well as a finalist for both the Los Angeles Times and the Edgar Allen Poe first fiction awards. A teacher at Harvard University, she has published fiction and essays in numerous magazines and been a frequent contributor to the New York Times.
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The experience of being cared for, held by a well-told story, can be transformative, too.
Suzanne Berne