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   Debra Spark

Twenty Favorite Books

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Persuasion by Jane Austen Blow-Up and Other Stories by Julio Cortazar
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich The Complete Tales by Nikolay Gogol
So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell Washington Square by Henry James
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
The Coast of Chicago by Stuart Dybek
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
A Collection of Essays by George Orwell
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Open Secrets by Alice Munro
The Shrinking of Treehorn by Florence Parry Heide
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
A River Runs Through It by Norman McLean
A House for Mr. Biswas by VS Naipaul
The Thirteen Petalled Rose by Adin Steinsaltz
Howard's End by E.M. Forster
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Debra Spark writes like some pixillated offspring of a secret liason between J.D. Salinger and Isabel Allende.

——Steve Stern

Ms.Spark has a knack for the unpredictable that makes reading her novel a process of incremental discovery...the openness of her mind, the generosity of her narrative spirit, bring life to the book in, well, a magical way.

——The New York Times Book Review