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Lily Tuck


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Born in Paris, Lily Tuck is the author of three previous novels -- Interviewing Matisse or The Woman Who Died Standing Up, The Woman Who Walked on Water, and Siam. Her short fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Fiction, and the Antioch Review. She divides her time between Maine and New York City.
 

Awards: NBA (2004)  see all

Genres: General Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
December 2024

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The Rest is Memory
 
Novels
   Interviewing Matisse (1991)
   The Woman Who Walked on Water (1996)
   Siam (1999)
   The News from Paraguay (2004)
   I Married You for Happiness (2011)
   The Double Life of Liliane (2015)
   Sisters (2017)
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Collections
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Novellas and Short Stories
   The Rest is Memory (2024)
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Non fiction show
 
Awards
2004 National Book Award for Fiction : The News from Paraguay

Award nominations
2000 PEN/Faulkner Award (nominee) : Siam: Or the Woman Who Shot a Man


Lily Tuck recommends
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Mid-Air (2022)
Victoria Shorr
"Victoria Shorr is a conjurer of the highest order, artfully creating apposite tales of family ruin and family success in her wry, insightful, and elegant prose."
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The Clairvoyants (2017)
Karen Brown
"Karen Brown deftly manages to make the occult ordinary and the strange familiar in this surprising and suspenseful novel."
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The Mother Who Stayed (2011)
Laura Furman
"These are dazzling stories, deeply felt and elegantly written. As I read them, I kept thinking I was reading Alice Munro but, no, I was reading Laura Furman."

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