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Allison Larkin
Bio:
Allison Larkin is the internationally bestselling author of the novels, The People We Keep, Stay, Why Can’t I Be You, and Swimming for Sunlight. Her short fiction has been published in the Summerset Review and Slice, and nonfiction in the anthologies, I’m Not the Biggest Bitch in This Relationship and Author in Progress.
She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, with her husband, Jeremy.

Books
HOME OF THE AMERICAN CIRCUS
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Literary & General
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Simon & Schuster
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“Told with compassion, humor, and honesty, Allison Larkin’s stunning Home of the American Circus is a poignant tale of estrangement, redefining family, reckoning with the past, and healing through challenging but ultimately empowering circumstances. Readers will fall in love with Larkin’s cast of vivid characters and won’t want to say goodbye at the end of the book.”
~Cassandra Dunn, author of The Art of Adapting
THE PEOPLE WE KEEP
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Literary & General
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Rights sold:
Simon & Schuster (USA), Munhaksasang (Korea)
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The bestselling author of the “moving, humorous, and utterly absorbing novel” (Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times bestselling author) Swimming for Sunlight returns with a heartbreaking and soul-stirring coming-of-age tale about a young songwriter longing to find a home in the world.
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