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Kate Walbert is the author of Our Kind, finalist for the National Book Award in 2004, Gardens of Kyoto, and Where She Went, a New York Times Notable Book of 1998. Her short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Best American Short Stories 2007 and numerous other publications. She lives in Connecticut. She reads from her novel: A Short History of Women
“In her luminous new novel, Kate Walbert weaves the strand of five beautifully particular lives into a tapestry made from key moments in modern history. The result is a subtle and profound book, as thought provoking as it is moving “ Ann Packer
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IAN MACKENZIE graduated from Harvard in 2004 then moved to Brooklyn, where he worked as a public high school teacher. CITY OF STRANGERS is his first novel. Publishers Weekly wrote: “A novel as grim as it is extraordinary . . . [the] visceral narrative, powered by taut prose and braced with sturdy philosophical and psychological underpinnings, is a winner.”

About the Series: KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction

The KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction showcases the finest in contemporary fiction from new and emerging writers.

Suzanne Dottino/fiction curator,