avg_rating: 3.21
name: Jessica Keener
about: Her newest novel, Strangers In Budapest, was published November 2017 by Algonquin Books and named Best Book in November by Entertainment Weekly, Simple.com, and Chicago Review of Books, and selected as an Indie Next Pick for December. Keener is also a national bestselling author of Night Swim, a coming of age debut novel that deals with a family tragedy, set in Boston, 1970; and a collection of short stories, Women In Bed, whose nine, emotionally raw tales address love, separation, break ups, divorce, forgiveness, and the evolution of self within the context of relationships