“It doesn’t work like that,” she said, and I was hoping she would tell me how it did work.
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“You did the best you could," and she seemed to believe I had. I said, "I've just been going through the motions," using the expression my father had after he'd watched my first tennis lesson. "Sweetie," she said, "that's what a lot of life is.”
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| Birth: | 1961 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Author, Novelist |
About
Melissa Bank is an American author. She has published two novels, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing and The Wonder Spot, which have been translated into over thirty languages. Bank was the winner of the 1993 Nelson Algren Award for short fiction. She currently teaches in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton.
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