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Jean Thompson's Books
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The Year We Left HomeThe Year We Left Home is sweeping and emotionally powerful story of the Erickson family during the tumultuous final decades of the twentieth century.Read More
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Wide Blue YonderFrom National Book Award-finalist Jean Thompson comes a compelling, highly charged novel about a family ruled by the weather, the drastic changes that...Read More
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Do Not Deny MeWhen Jean Thompson—"America's Alice Munro" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)—is telling stories, "You cannot put the book down" (The Seattle...Read More
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Throw Like A GirlA master of short fiction whose "best pieces are as good as it gets in contemporary cction" (Newsday) returns, as Jean Thompson follows her National...Read More
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Who Do You LoveIn this acclaimed collection, Jean Thompson limns the lives of ordinary people -- a lonely social worker, a down-and-out junkie, a divorced cop on the...Read More
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New York Times, January 14, 2012
...with one of his new militia comrades turns into a gruesome comedy. Even survivalists should pack mosquito repellent. Jean Thompson is the author, most recently, of the novel “The Year We Left Home...
New York Times, January 13, 2012
...with one of his new militia comrades turns into a gruesome comedy. Even survivalists should pack mosquito repellent. Jean Thompson is the author, most recently, of the novel “The Year We Left Home...
Chattanoogan, December 21, 2011
...story that begs to be repeated, especially on this day. It seems that there was a lady named Jean Thompson and when she stood in front of her fifth-grade class on the very first day of school in the fall, she told the children a lie. Like most teachers...
Women'sPost, December 5, 2011
...been so believable in this tale weaved by a masterful story teller. The Year We Left Home by Jean Thompson In 1973 the Erickson family gathers for the wedding of their oldest daughter. Even as they celebrate, the dysfunction in the family appears. The...
KansasCity.com, December 2, 2011
...in which extremism on both sides only leads to contradiction. • The Year We Left Home, by Jean Thompson (Simon & Schuster). Thompson is a writer of resonance, humor and insight shrewdly attuned to the deep and absurd conflicts that fracture...
Minneapolis Star Tribune, November 26, 2011
...washes over each character in turn like some kind of ... heavenly light. "THE YEAR WE LEFT HOME" by Jean Thompson (Simon & Schuster, $25) Put down the Franzen and pick up Jean Thompson's absorbing saga of an Iowa family coming to terms with the end of...
Cosmopolitan, November 11, 2011
...of a family. I really like reading about how families work together. The Year We Left Home by Jean Thompson. It’s about a bunch of different characters in the same family and it spans different times. They look perfect on the outside and their lives...
Post Crescent, February 7, 2012
Norwalk Hour, February 6, 2012
...to be presented at Waveny Care Center in New Canaan at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 9. Jean Thompson, senior case manager in the Case Management Department at Norwalk Hospital, will discuss planning ahead for health care decisions related to end-of-life...
Columbia Star, February 3, 2012
...program books, photos, and a history of the club. Seated, (l-r): Jean Miller, Nancy Reynolds, Winnie Godley, and Jean Thompson. Standing, (l-r): Ruthie Taylor, Marshanna Brown, Carolyn Foster, Kathie Wilkes, Mary Fant, Anna Boyle, Judy Allen, Ann...
Boston Standard, February 3, 2012
...who suffered their first defeat of the season. Gill Grant, Arnold Bennett and Jean Cammack won 22-20 and Jean Thompson, Sheila King and Jim Gott added an 18-14 score. l Woodhall 40 (4) Stumpers 25 (2): BOTTOM team Stumpers’ mini run of success came to...
Meridian Star, February 1, 2012
...and nephews; and special friend, Milo Beesley. She was preceded in death by her parents, A.B. and Jean Thompson; and her former husband, Elvin “Bo” Rogers. Pallbearers will be Steve Gressett, Jason Clark, Kerry Henson, Randy Fisher, Freddie Gentry...
TheBanner, February 1, 2012
...June 6: Shawn Mark Miskell and Heather Renee Miskell. June 9: Tunis Thompson a/k/a Lewis T. Thompson and Jean Thompson. June 11: Bonnie J. Smith and Orville L. Smith. Circuit Court Civil June 4: Raymond Stanton, Vicki Stanton, Jonathan Stanton vs Daniel...
Austin Daily Herald, January 31, 2012
...sports on TV. Survivors include two daughters and one son; eight sisters: Joyce (Clifford) Carlson of St. Paul, Jean Thompson of Forest City, Iowa, Marjorie Distad of Albert Lea, Patricia (Bernard) Schaefer and Rita (Arnold) Earl, both of Austin, Linda...
