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Rachel Beanland is the author of the forthcoming novel, THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE, which will be published by Simon & Schuster in April 2023. Her debut novel, FLORENCE ADLER SWIMS FOREVER, received the 2020 National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction (Greenberg Prize) and has been published or is forthcoming in nine countries. She is a graduate of the University of South Carolina and received her MFA in creative writing from Virginia Commonwealth University. She lives in Richmond, Virginia with her family.

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	Florence Adler Swims Forever 3.88 avg rating — 23,190 ratings — published 2020 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Richmond Theater Fire: Early America's First Great Disaster by Meredith Henne Baker (Goodreads Author), Rachel Beanland (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 3.90 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“How could a man who had so much always manage to believe he had so little?”
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“This, she realized, was what it felt like to grow old. Eventually people felt so weighed down by the yoke of their own bad decisions that they could scarcely move.”
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“...was what it felt like to grow old. Eventually people felt so weighed down by the yoke of their own bad decisions that they could scarcely move.”
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Anxious People

by Fredrik Backman

11 votes, 28.2%

Transcendent Kingdom

by Yaa Gyasi

8 votes, 20.5%

The Room on Rue Amelie

by Kristin Harmel

5 votes, 12.8%

Winter Counts

by David Heska Wanbli Weiden

3 votes, 7.7%

The Widows of Malabar Hill

by Sujata Massey

3 votes, 7.7%

The Glass Hotel

by Emily St. John Mandel

3 votes, 7.7%

The Orphan Collector

by Ellen Marie Wiseman

2 votes, 5.1%

Florence Adler Swims Forever

by Rachel Beanland

2 votes, 5.1%

The Vineyards of Champagne

by Juliet Blackwell

2 votes, 5.1%

Musical Chairs

by Amy Poeppel

0 votes, 0.0%

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