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Name: Family and Other Accidents
Rating: 4.4 (5 reviews)
Author: Shari Goldhagen
ISBN: 9780385515979

Family and Other Accidents

by Shari Goldhagen

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Apr 4, 2006, 272 pages

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Apr 2006, 272 pages

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Shari Goldhagen is a native Ohioan who holds a lot of writing degrees from Big Ten Schools in the Midwest: A journalism degree from Northwestern and an MFA from Ohio State. She currently lives in New York City where she teaches fiction and works as a freelance writer.

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