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TELL ME WHO WE WERE
A linked collection that tells the story of six girls as they turn into women over the course of fifty years, starting when they're twelve.
At the book's opening, the girls are all at boarding school together when their beloved, young teacher and object of much fantasy and fascination, Mr. Arcilla, dies mysteriously at the bottom of the school lake. Each subsequent story is about one of the girls at a certain point along their journey, showing the effects of that tragedy on their lives. The themes are metamorphoses and womanhood, but the heart of the book is how an early loss can reverberate throughout the lives of those left behind, sometimes to destructive ends, and sometimes to restorative, even magical, ones. Kate's writing is lush, lyrical, and incisive, with sentences and paragraphs you want to cut out and pin to the wall and read over and over again. It's the kind of of-the-moment writing and storytelling that has propelled books like Emma Cline's The Girls to the tops of bestsellers lists.
Kate McQuade lives in Andover, Massachusetts. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Black Warrior Review, Harvard Review, Baltimore Review, and Verse Daily, among other journals. In 2017, she was named a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference and awarded fellowships at Yaddo and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has previously received awards and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Ucross Foundation, the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, and the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars. A native Minnesotan, she holds degrees from Princeton University and the Bread Loaf School of English and teaches at Phillips Academy, Andover, where she holds the Harkness Instructorship in English.
Kate McQuade lives in Andover, Massachusetts. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Black Warrior Review, Harvard Review, Baltimore Review, and Verse Daily, among other journals. In 2017, she was named a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference and awarded fellowships at Yaddo and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has previously received awards and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Ucross Foundation, the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, and the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars. A native Minnesotan, she holds degrees from Princeton University and the Bread Loaf School of English and teaches at Phillips Academy, Andover, where she holds the Harkness Instructorship in English.
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Published 2019-07-02 by William Morrow |