Kaaterskill Falls

Allegra Goodman

1998

There are times Nina wants to strike Andras like a flint and make him burn. And there are times when she is patient and steels herself with more strength than he knows. But mostly Nina is lonely. She manages everything during the week—the bills, the shopping, the children—and then when Andras comes up, he spends hours walking, or visiting his…

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Allegra Goodman

b. 1967

Novelist and short story writer Allegra Goodman was born in New York and grew up in Honolulu. She published her first short story in Commentary at age seventeen. The day she graduated Harvard University, her first book was published. Goodman teaches in the graduate program in Creative Writing at Boston University. She has received the Whiting Foundation Award, the Edward Lewis Wallant Award, and the New York Times Notable Book of the Year Award.

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