Laura Catherine Brown has been awarded residency fellowships at the Ragdale Foundation, the Norcroft Writing Retreat, and the Hambridge Center. This year she attended the Breadloaf Writers Conference and will work on her second novel at the MacDowell Colony. She lives in Manhattan.
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Our lives all contain growth spurts—physical ones, most obviously, but intellectual and emotional ones as well. This acutely powerful debut novel focuses on just such a time in the life of a nineteen-year-old girl. Mandy Boyle is leaving home for th... SEE MORE