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Lau­ren Grodstein

Lau­ren Grod­stein is the author of four nov­els, includ­ing the New York Times best­seller A Friend of the Fam­i­ly and the Wash­ing­ton Post Book of the Year The Expla­na­tion for Every­thing. She directs the MFA Pro­gram at Rut­gers Uni­ver­si­ty-Cam­den and lives in New Jer­sey with her hus­band son and dog.

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Essay

Grow­ing to Love Hebrew School

This week, Lau­ren Grod­stein, the author of The Expla­na­tion for Every­thing, A Friend of the Fam­i­ly, and Repro­duc­tion is the Flaw of Love and the sto­ry col­lec­tion…
Lau­ren Grodstein
May 20, 2014
Essay

The French Dur­ing the Holo­caust and the Com­pli­ca­tions of History

Ear­li­er this week, Lau­ren Grod­stein wrote about her strange rela­tion­ship with her son’s all-Amer­i­can looks. Her most recent nov­el, The Expla­na­tion for Every­thing,…
Lau­ren Grodstein
August 29, 2013
Essay

The Gold­en Child

Lau­ren Grod­stein​’s books include the nov­els The Expla­na­tion for Every­thing, A Friend of the Fam­i­ly, and Repro­duc­tion is the Flaw of Love and the sto­ry…
Lau­ren Grodstein
August 26, 2013
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