Laura Kalpakian (Author of The Great Pretenders)
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Laura Kalpakian

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Average rating: 3.61 · 2,010 ratings · 373 reviews · 36 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Great Pretenders

3.73 avg rating — 621 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions
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The Memoir Club

3.38 avg rating — 361 ratings — published 2003 — 8 editions
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Educating Waverley

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American Cookery

3.60 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 2006 — 10 editions
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Steps and Exes: A Novel of ...

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Graced Land

3.87 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1992 — 9 editions
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These Latter Days

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Caveat

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The Delinquent Virgin

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A Son Of This House: Sean Meyer 1982—2024

But as a boy, through elementary, middle and into high school Sean Meyer was so often present here with us that, like the other sons of this house, Bear and Brendan McCreary, his laughter and his gifts melded into ours. He is present in photos of Christmas and New Years and Thanksgivings, the Elvis parties, family celebrations and birthdays for many years. More poignantly, he was present on those

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“There are no real Californians. There are only people who live there and people who don't.”
Laura Kalpakian, Steps and Exes: A Novel of Family

“When you bite into a chocolate truffle, you don't want to find oat bran.”
Laura Kalpakian, Educating Waverley

“She spoke with the usual cadences of the young: sentences curling upward at the end, all statements fading into a smoky, implied question mark, as though nothing could be said with any reasonable certainty.”
Laura Kalpakian, Educating Waverley

“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”
Daphne du Maurier

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