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Elizabeth Whitmore Funk

Elizabeth Whitmore Funk is a writer, editor, critic, and professor based in Washington, DC. As a former editor in New York City and London, she currently serves on the English faculty of Marymount University.

Books reviewed by Elizabeth Whitmore Funk

Gulp (05/22/13)
The Interestings (04/17/13)
Toms River (03/20/13)
Dear Life (01/09/13)
The Malice of Fortune (11/28/12)
Flight Behavior (11/14/12)
Blasphemy (10/03/12)
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (09/19/12)
The Mansion of Happiness (08/22/12)
City (06/28/12)
An Economist Gets Lunch (05/02/12)
The American Heiress (03/21/12)
Catherine the Great (02/09/12)
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? (11/17/11)
The Marriage Plot (10/19/11)
The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb (09/07/11)
The Beekeeper's Lament (07/13/11)
Vaclav & Lena (05/12/11)
The Trinity Six (03/24/11)
Gold Boy, Emerald Girl (09/22/10)
Anthill (05/19/10)
Claiming Ground (04/21/10)
Bloodroot (02/03/10)
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein (11/19/09)

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    Based on the author’s family story, comes an extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters’ escape from Taiwan.
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    For fans of All the Light We Cannot See, a poignant tale of a trans man’s survival in Nazi Germany and postwar Berlin.

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