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Beating a 'distinctive and dazzling path of her own', Maggie Shipstead won the International Dylan Thomas Prize in 2012 with her debut novel Seating Arrangements. The novel also won the L.A. Times Book Prize for First Fiction. Maggie followed up the success of her debut with her second novel Astonish Me in 2014, turning her unique eye for

I honestly may reread Seating Arrangements this summer to savor Shipstead's droll language anew. Seating Arrangements won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for best first fiction, and the good news

"Maggie Shipstead is an outrageously gifted writer, and her assured first novel, Seating Arrangements, is by turns hilarious and deeply moving." —Richard Russo "The novel I've been recommending this summer to anyone, female or male, who's looking for the trifecta—a good story that's beautifully written and both hilarious and humane." —Maureen Corrigan, NPR