Read an extract from Booth, where an ill-fated family of thespians, drinkers and dreamers, whose most infamous son is destined to commit a terrible act.
Karen Joy Fowler
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Karen Joy Fowler is the New York Times-bestselling author of three short story collections and seven novels, including The Jane Austen Book Club
The Jane Austen Book Club, Fowler’s fifth novel, was adapted into a film of the same name and released in 2007. Her seventh novel, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2014, won the PEN/Faulkner Prize and has sold over a million copies.
Fowler was born in Bloomington, Indiana, and spent the first eleven years of her life there before her family moved to Palo Alto, California. She later attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she majored in political science.
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