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Kevin Brennan is the author of seven novels, including Parts Unknown (William Morrow/HarperCollins), Yesterday Road, and, coming in May '22, The Prospect. His short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Berkeley Fiction Review, Mid-American Review, Twin Pies, The Daily Drunk, Sledgehammer, Fictive Dream, Atlas and Alice, LEON Literary Review, MoonPark Review, Atticus Review, and others. He's also the editor of The Disappointed Housewife, a literary magazine for writers of offbeat and idiosyncratic fiction, poetry, and essays. Kevin lives with his wife in California's Sierra foothills. ...more

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	Yesterday Road 4.48 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Occasional Soulmates 4.03 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Town Father, Or, Where Graceful Girls Abound 3.92 avg rating — 25 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In No Particular Order 4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Parts Unknown 3.58 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eternity Began Tomorrow 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Our Children Are Not Our Children 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original

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“Yet there was definitely something off about Truthing. He struck me as ambitious. I know, right? But I wasn’t sure what he really wanted. It seemed like the presidency was means to some other end. Even though he expected to lose.”
― Kevin Brennan, Eternity Began Tomorrow

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“I’m not about to let perfect be the enemy of the good here, okay? We’re getting under this cat’s skin, and I want him making some unforced errors.”
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“A silver/blue Bentley sat waiting, the trunk pre-popped by Chad’s fob, and the aroma of unrestrained elegance wafting up my nose like pot smoke in the Mission District. You know what it is even if you’ve never partaken.”
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“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”
― Graham Greene, Ways of Escape

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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

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“On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

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“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”
― Saul Bellow, Herzog