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About Jami Attenberg
American fiction writer and essayist
Jami Attenberg is an American fiction writer and essayist. She is known for a short story collection, seven novels, and a memoir. Born in the United States, she writes in a contemporary literary mode and has built a career around fiction and personal prose. Her work includes the best-selling novel The Middlesteins, published in 2012, and the memoir I Came All This Way to Meet You, published in 2022. Across her books, she is associated with fiction and essay writing, moving between invented stories and firsthand reflection.
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Books by Jami Attenberg
Saint Mazie
2015
The Middlesteins
2013
All Grown Up
2017
The kept man
2007
The melting season
2010