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Laura Spence-Ash's fiction has appeared in One Story, New England Review, Crazyhorse, and elsewhere. Her critical essays and book reviews appear regularly in the Ploughshares blog. She received her MFA in fiction from Rutgers–Newark, and she lives in New Jersey.
Genres: Historical
Laura Spence-Ash recommends
Penitence (2025)
Kristin Koval
"Kristin Koval's prose is crisp and readable and insightful... Penitence will grab you on its first page and hold you tight until the end."
A Golden Life (2024)
Ginny Kubitz Moyer
"A Golden Life is a wonderful portrait of an independent woman in 1930s California that explores the ways in which women's lives were constrained by the mores of the time. The settings are beautifully drawn and developed - special and loving attention is paid to the beauty of the natural world. Ginny Kubitz Moyer writes with quiet authority and strong prose, creating a novel that is hard to put down and characters that remain long after the book is read."
Mercury (2024)
Amy Jo Burns
"Mercury, by Amy Jo Burns, is a beautiful, heartfelt novel about the Joseph family of Mercury, Pennsylvania. Burns skillfully employs the omniscient point-of-view as we spend time with multiple characters, exploring what it means to be part of a family, and how the narrative of a family develops and changes over time. We get to know the Josephs intimately-roofer Mick and his wife Elise, and their three sons, Waylon, Baylor, and Shea. But the character who lights up this book is Marley, the woman who will fiercely love the Joseph family and provide a way forward for them all."
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