Kate Christensen

American novelist, short-story writer, and memoirist; author of The Great Man, which won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award.

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  1. 1. Welcome Home, Stranger

    Rachel, a fifty-something environmental journalist in Washington, DC, has long shunned her New England working-class family. Divorced and childless, she returns reluctantly to Maine after her mother's death and finds her life falling further apart. Surrounded by an arriviste sister, an alcoholic brother-in-law, and the love of her life recently married to her sister's best friend, Rachel must confront buried sorrow, reckon with the ghost of her mother, and decide how to carry on.

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