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Laurie Frankel

Biography

Laurie Frankel

Laurie Frankel is the New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of five novels. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Poets & Writers, Publisher’s Weekly, People Magazine, Lit Hub, The Sydney Morning Herald and other publications. She is the recipient of the Washington State Book Award and the Endeavor Award. Her novels have been translated into more than 25 languages and been optioned for film and TV. A former college professor, she now writes full-time in Seattle, Washington, where she lives with her family and makes good soup.

Books by Laurie Frankel

Family Family
by Laurie Frankel - Fiction

While promoting her most recent movie, a film about adoption, India Allwood does something she knows you should never do --- she tells a journalist the truth.

This Is How It Always Is
by Laurie Frankel - Fiction

THIS IS HOW IT ALWAYS IS is a novel about how it always is: Change is always hard and miraculous and hard again, parenting is always a leap into the unknown with crossed fingers and full hearts, children grow but not always according to plan…and families with secrets don’t get to keep them forever.

Goodbye for Now
by Laurie Frankel - Fiction

Sam Elling meets the love of his life, a coworker named Meredith. When Meredith's grandmother dies suddenly, Sam creates a computer program that will allow Meredith to have one last conversation with her grandmother. The idea catches on, but for every person who just wants to say good-bye, there is someone who can't let go.

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