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Gabrielle Zevin

Gabrielle Zevin is the New York Times Best Selling author of eight novels. For adults: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (2014), The Hole We’re In (2010), and Margarettown (2005). For young adults: Elsewhere (2005), Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac (2007), and the three books in the Anya Balanchine series, All These Things I’ve Done (2011), Because It Is My Blood (2012), and In the Age of Love and Chocolate (2013). Her books have been translated into over thirty languages.The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry has spent over four months on the New York Times Best Seller List, reached #1 on the National Indie Bestseller List, and has been a bestseller in multiple countries. The Toronto Globe and Mail called the book “a powerful novel about the power of novels."Her debut, Margarettown, was a selection of the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program. The Hole We’re In was a New York Times Editor’s Choice title. Publishers Weekly called The Hole We're In “a Corrections for our recessionary times.”Her best known young adult novel is Elsewhere, an American Library Association Notable Children’s Book. Of Elsewhere, the New York Times Book Review wrote, “Every so often a book comes along with a premise so fresh and arresting it seems to exist in a category all its own… Elsewhere, by Gabrielle Zevin, is such a book.”She is the screenwriter of Conversations with Other Women (Helena Bonham Carter, Aaron Eckhart) for which she received an Independent Spirit Award Nomination for Best First Screenplay. In 2009, she and director Hans Canosa adapted her novel Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac (ALA Best Books for Young Adults) into the Japanese film, Dareka ga Watashi ni Kiss wo Shita. She has also written for the New York Times Book Review and NPR’s All Things Considered. She began her writing career at age fourteen as a music critic for the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel.Zevin is a graduate of Harvard University. She lives in Los Angeles.
years of life: 24 October 1977 present

Quotes

Лика Меликсетянhas quoted3 months ago
“I think you mean a public failure. Because we all fail in private. I failed with you, for example, but no one posted an online review about it, unless you did. I fail with my wife and with my son. I fail in my work every day, but I keep turning over the problems until I’m not failing anymore. But public failures are different, it’s true.”
billecarthas quoted2 years ago
She liked hotel rooms, thick towels, cashmere sweaters, silk dresses, oxfords, brunch, fine stationery, overpriced conditioner, bouquets of gerbera, hats, postage stamps, art monographs, maranta plants, PBS documentaries, challah, soy candles, and yoga.
Katihas quoted2 months ago
She can usually find something positive to say about a book or, failing that, the cover or, failing that, the author or, failing that, the author’s website

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Ґебріель Зевін вчергове описує життя звичайних людей. В цей раз ґеймерів, показуючи читачу їхнє життя від початку (тобто майже народження) і до певної точки їхнього життя. Вчергове не забуває про всі недоліки нашого життя, чим книжка стає ще привабливішою для читача і не кормить солодкими пілюлями, від чого, інколи, стає легше. Єдине, що не дуже сподобалось, це деяка недоказаність в порівнянні з попередніми романами, але життя триває і хтозна, може ми колись почуємо про Сейді і Сема знов.

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    💡Learnt A Lot
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    🔮Hidden Depths
    💡Learnt A Lot
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    😄LOLZ
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