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Jane Shapiro

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2 picks · 1988–1992

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Poltergeists
fiction ·

Story told mostly in a flashback to 1985 when the narrator's two children, Zack and Nora, were finishing high school and she was newly divorced and …

Down In Florida
fiction ·

Just before New Year's the narrator goes down to Florida with her ex-husband William. His mother, Lainie, is in the hospital with stomach pain. They …