3 Quotes & Sayings By Kathleen Alcott

Kathleen Alcott is the author of five books: four novels and one memoir. Her novels include The Best Laid Plans (winner of the 2014 Whiting Writers' Award), The Fifth Season, and The Last Season (which was a finalist for the 2012 New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice). Her memoir, The Roar of Silence, tells the story of her childhood in World War II-era Japan.

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Paulie smiled slightly at this, as profanity had always felt to him like a seal of understanding, a shortcut to extreme feeling that people used when they needed it most. Kathleen Alcott
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I had lived my life before in accordance with the poverty and itinerancy of my childhood, sliding in and out of other people’s leases, never expecting to stay very long and tolerating circumstances that strike me now as completely absurd. Kathleen Alcott