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Leah Hager Cohen
Leah Hager Cohen has written four non-fiction books, including Train Go Sorry and Glass, Paper, Beans, and four novels, including House Lights and The Grief of Others.
She serves as the Jenks Chair in Contemporary American Letters at the College of the Holy Cross, and teaches in the Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review.
She serves as the Jenks Chair in Contemporary American Letters at the College of the Holy Cross, and teaches in the Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review.
Genres: General Fiction
Novels
Heat Lightning (1997)
Heart, You Bully, You Punk (2003)
House Lights (2007)
The Grief of Others (2011)
No Book But the World (2014)
Strangers and Cousins (2019)
To & Fro (2024)
Heart, You Bully, You Punk (2003)
House Lights (2007)
The Grief of Others (2011)
No Book But the World (2014)
Strangers and Cousins (2019)
To & Fro (2024)
Non fiction show
Books containing stories by Leah Hager Cohen
Leah Hager Cohen recommends
Shred Sisters (2024)
Betsy Lerner
"Betsy Lerner's Shred Sisters is a cocktail of raw poetry, needle sharp insights, and propulsive, almost projectile honesty. I can't get over how deftly it pivots from funny to mean to vulnerable to wise, often on a single page. Lerner explores the contours of complicated relationships with an intoxicating ferocity that--we come to realize--amounts to no less than an act of love."
Closer to Fine (2021)
Jodi S Rosenfeld
"This book radiates goodness. It's warm and smart, funny and brave. It has deep, particular knowledge of people, while at the same time embracing the great, wistful messiness of being human. And it's a sheer pleasure to read: a beautifully paced, searching journey full of surprises and wisdom."
Shuggie Bain (2020)
Douglas Stuart
"The body - especially the body in pain - blazes on the pages of Shuggie Bain . . . This is the world of Shuggie Bain, a little boy growing up in Glasgow in the 1980s. And this is the world of Agnes Bain, his glamorous, calamitous mother, drinking herself ever so slowly to death. The wonder is how crazily, improbably alive it all is . . . The book would be just about unbearable were it not for the author’s astonishing capacity for love. He’s lovely, Douglas Stuart, fierce and loving and lovely. He shows us lots of monstrous behavior, but not a single monster-only damage. If he has a sharp eye for brokenness, he is even keener on the inextinguishable flicker of love that remains . . . The book leaves us gutted and marveling: Life may be short, but it takes forever."
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