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Kate Walbert
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Kate Walbert

Kate Walbert is the author of Where She Went, a New York Times Notable Book of 1998; The Gardens of Kyoto, winner of the Connecticut Book Award for fiction in 2002; and Our Kind, finalist for the National Book Award in 2004. Her short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and numerous other publications. She lives in New York City and Connecticut with her family.

Kate Walbert's Books

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The Gardens of Kyoto
The Gardens of Kyoto A Novel By: Kate Walbert
This edition: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publication date: April 13, 2010
I had a cousin, Randall, killed on Iwo Jima. Have I told you?So begins Kate Walbert's beautiful and heartbreaking novel about a young woman, Ellen, coming of age in the long shadow of World War II. Forty years later she...
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Other Formats: Trade Paperback, eBook, Hardcover
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A Short History of Women Browse Inside A Short History of Women
A Short History of Women A Novel By: Kate Walbert
This edition: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publication date: June 16, 2009
National Book Award finalist Kate Walbert's A Short History of Women is a profoundly moving portrayal of the complicated legacies of mothers and daughters, chronicling five generations of women from the close of the nineteenth...
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Other Formats: eBook, Trade Paperback
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Our Kind
Our Kind A Novel in Stories By: Kate Walbert
This edition: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publication date: December 28, 2004
From the award-winning author of The Gardens of Kyoto comes this witty and incisive novel about the lives and attitudes of a group of women -- once country-club housewives; today divorced, independent, and breaking the...
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Other Formats: eBook