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Lauren Grodstein’s books include the novels A Friend of the Family and Reproduction is the Flaw of Love, and The Best of Animals, a story collection. Her pseudonymous Girls Dinner Club was a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age. Her work has been translated into German, Italian, French, Turkish, and other languages, and her essays and stories have been widely anthologized.Lauren teaches creative writing at Rutgers-Camden, where she helps administer the college’s MFA program. She lives with her husband and son in New Jersey.
A “wonderful second novel . . . Grodstein brings great insight into a father’s protective urge for his son in this gripping portrait of an American family in crisis.” 
- Publishers Weekly, starred review
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Rachel Sherman holds an MFA in fiction from Columbia University. Her short stories have appeared in McSweeney’s, Open City, Post Road, Conjunctions, n 1, and Story Quarterly, among other publications, and in the book 
Full Frontal Fiction: The Best of Nerve Anthology Her book of short stories, “The First Hurt” (Open City Books) was short listed for The Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, and was named one of the 25 Books to Remember from 2006 by the New York Public Library. She reads from her novel: The Living Room
“Rachel Sherman’s Long Island is a desolate place: lawns, indoor carpeting, a wet couch some high school kids dragged into the woods to smoke pot on. The au pair has acne and grandma can’t seem to turn off the caps lock key. Sherman, incredibly, is in no hurry to leave this place. She tells it all. The result is a funny, scary, dirty, and, in the end, a very moving, generous book.”
—Keith Gessen, author of All the Sad Young Literary Men


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,