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Karen Rigby

Karen Rigby is the author of Chinoiserie (Ahsahta Press, 2012), which received the 2011 Sawtooth Poetry Prize. Her website is karenrigby.com

Books reviewed by Karen Rigby

The Infatuations (09/18/13)
Beneath the Abbey Wall (01/09/13)
The Bathing Women (11/28/12)
The Story of My Assassins (10/31/12)
The Round House (10/03/12)
The Absolutist (08/22/12)
Mission to Paris (07/11/12)
The Chaperone (06/14/12)
The Thief (04/18/12)
Drifting House (02/15/12)
Stealing Mona Lisa (09/07/11)
Miss New India (06/15/11)
The Mistress of Nothing (02/03/11)
The Blindness of the Heart (11/03/10)
Some Sing, Some Cry (10/06/10)
The Quickening Maze (09/08/10)
Beirut 39 (08/04/10)
Ilustrado (06/09/10)
The Imperfectionists (04/07/10)
Ruby's Spoon (02/17/10)
Nocturnes (11/05/09)
The Invisible Mountain (09/23/09)
Censoring an Iranian Love Story (06/10/09)
Every Man Dies Alone (04/01/09)
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (03/08/09)
The Spare Room (02/05/09)
Factory Girls (10/15/08)
A Map of Home (10/01/08)
Dry Storeroom No. 1 (09/04/08)
The Nightingales of Troy (08/13/08)

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