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Marriage and family life take center stage in Hilary Leichter’s new novel, Terrace Story, offering a modern fable about time, narrative, and real estate.

“Leichter bends minds—and physics—to give a light touch to deep grief.”

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Hilary Leichter is the author of the novels Temporary and Terrace Story. She has been a finalist for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Prize, and her work in Harper's Magazine won the 2021 National Magazine Award in Fiction. She teaches at Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn, NY. 

Sam Lipsyte is the author of the story collections Venus Drive and The Fun Parts and five novels: No One Left to Come Looking for You, Hark, The Ask (a New York Times Notable Book), The Subject Steve, and Home Land, which was a New York Times Notable Book and received the Believer Book Award. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.

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