Alison Clement

Twenty Questions
"With Twenty Questions, Alison Clement has accomplished that rare feat of a literary page-turner. The prose is deceptively straightforward and the characters eerily ordinary and recognizable. Beneath a simple surface runs a complex and frightening subterranean story, one that continues to produce surprises and insights, the most alarming of which might be that this is every person's psychology, every town's fraught underside. This book satisfies at all levels."
—Oregon Book Award judge, Antonya Nelson

Winner of the Oregon Book Award

Pretty Is As Pretty Does

Pretty Is As Pretty Does is the rare book that editors dream of finding. It is intelligent, funny, and engaging. I’ve read perhaps hundreds of manuscripts that try in vain to accomplish what Alison Clement does so effortlessly and so beautifully. In editing the work, I’ve read Pretty numerous times and have not yet tired of it and have even gleaned new elements and subtlety with each reading. Pretty is a melding of literary and mainstream fiction that is adored by readers and critics alike.


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