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Molly Giles
LIFE SPAN, the first book of nonfiction from award-winning fiction writer Molly Giles, recounts her transits across the Golden Gate Bridge, yielding insights about a woman writer's life.
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This evocative collection of 14 stories introduces women struggling to make their voices heard amid the cacophony of everyday life. Molly Giles portrays women blessed with the delightful ability to…
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This collection is her best ever. AMY TAN The speakers in Wife With Knife offer their truths with surprising starkness. Many of the stories are not traditional narratives but glimpses…
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A master of the complexities of language, Molly Giles writes of the missed connections in life and of the rough translations that we employ when we try to convey, through…
At forty-four, Kay Sorensen has quit drinking, smoking, and overeating, and she has almost quit reading self-help books about quitting drinking, smoking and overeating. She has divorced her deadbeat husband…
Winner of the Spokane Prize for Short Fiction
Molly Giles’s nineteen strange and tightly woven tales merge the mythic and the modern with dark humor and deep humanity. Many of…
Wife with Knife is a collection of quick and quirky short stories, that are an utter delight and winner of the Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize 2020
Death, that ending of all endings, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O'Connor Award…
These stories amount to something more than a celebration of the holidays dotting our calendars from month to month. Each story serves to complicate how we observe the human observation…
