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Alison Espach

Alison Espach
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Alison Espach

Alison Espach is a graduate of the Washington University in St. Louis MFA program. Her writing has appeared in McSweeney’s, Five Chapters, Glamour and other magazines. She grew up in Connecticut and now teaches creative writing in New York.

Someone's Uncle will be released on September 27, 2011 in eBook
Sep 27, 2011
Someone's Uncle is now available in eBook
Sep 27, 2011
The Adults is now available in Trade Paperback
Sep 06, 2011
The Adults will be released on September 06, 2011 in Trade Paperback
Sep 06, 2011
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Mar 11, 2011
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Mar 09, 2011
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Mar 06, 2011
The Adults will be released on February 01, 2011 in Hardcover, eBook
Feb 01, 2011
The Adults is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Feb 01, 2011
The Adults will be released on February 01, 2011 in eBook
Feb 01, 2011
The Adults is now available in eBook
Feb 01, 2011
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Jan 29, 2011
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Dec 23, 2010

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Ladies Home Journal, March 10, 2012
...bookshelf on our books page. What have you read recently and loved? I just read The Adults, by Alison Espach, which was amazing. It’s a coming-of-age story about a girl growing up in Connecticut, and it’s full of dramatic tension. There’s some...
The Atlantic Wire, December 9, 2011
...Jeff Bezos is  testing the patience of America's independent booksellers once more. Back in June, Amazon named Alison Espach's debut novel The Adults one of its "Best Books of 2011...So Far." She was understandably happy, until the 'so far'...
Journal Review, June 2, 2011
...by Maeve Binchy tells of a motherless girl collectively raised by a closely-knit Dublin community. "The Adults" by Alison Espach shows an intelligent high school student exposed to the world of grown-ups who perform contemporary acts that are not highly...
Indy.com, May 22, 2011
...By Alison Espach (Simon and Schuster, $25) Alison Espach’s debut novel is the story of a dysfunctional family of three narrated by the observant only child, Emily Vidal. Espach shows Emily...
Louisville Courier-Journal, May 22, 2011
...circle, sometimes it's a braid, and sometimes it's amorphous, which is usually not a good sign. Alison Espach's debut novel, “The Adults,” is in bookstores now...
The Book Stop, August 13, 2011
...Arthur Phillips 22 Brittania Road by Amanda Hodgkinson Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin The Adults by Alison Espach Galore by Michael Crummey Ten Thousand Saints by Eleanor Henderson Open City by Teju Cole State of Wonder by Ann Patchett The...