Emily St. John Mandel | Author

Emily St. John Mandel
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PUBLISHED: Jun.02.2009

Lilia Albert has been leaving people behind for her entire life. She spends her childhood and adolescence traveling constantly and changing identities. In adulthood, she finds it impossible to stop. Haunted by an inability to remember her early childhood, she moves restlessly from city to city, abandoning lovers along the way, possibly still followed by a private detective who has...

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Oct.23.2009 - 11:17 am

Bright city

I've never visited New York City, but I've moved here twice. The first time I arrived by train from Toronto to find a city still reeling: the towers had fallen six months earlier...

Aug.14.2009 - 9:53 am

The 7 a.m. from Port Authority

You know you’re doing the right thing with your life, it occurred to me recently, when traveling six hours one-way for the sake of two hours in a bookstore seems like time well-...

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Aug.14.2009 - 10:23 am

In response to: 5 Hearts for To Tempt the Wolf! ~~Romance Studio,

What a great review!

What a great review! Congratulations.

About Emily St. John

Emily St. John Mandel was born on the west coast of British Columbia, Canada, in 1979. She studied dance at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre and lived briefly in Montreal before relocating to New York. Her first novel, Last Night in Montreal, was published...

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Emily St. John’s Favorite Books

After Dark by Murakami; Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar; everything that J.D. Salinger and Vladimir Nabokov ever wrote; The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer;...