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Maile Meloy

Maile Meloy is the author of the novels Liars and Saints and A Family Daughter; the short story collections Half in Love and Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It (named one of the "10 Best Books of 2009" by the New York Times Book Review); and a bestselling middle-grade trilogy. Her fiction has won the Paris Review's Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award, and the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Meloy was shortlisted for the UK's Orange Prize for Fiction and chosen as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists.
El pulpo se escapa
The Octopus Escapes
Do Not Become Alarmed
Devotion
The Apprentices
The Apothecary
Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It

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El pulpo se escapa
The Octopus Escapes
Do Not Become Alarmed
Devotion
The Apprentices
The Apothecary
Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It

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