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Helen Phillips is the author of five books, including, most recently, the novel THE NEED. Her collection SOME POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS received the 2017 John Gardner Fiction Book Award. Her novel THE BEAUTIFUL BUREAUCRAT, a New York Times Notable Book of 2015, was a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her collection AND YET THEY WERE HAPPY was named a Notable Book by the Story Prize. She is also the author of the children's adventure novel HERE WHERE THE SUNBEAMS ARE GREEN. Helen is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and the Italo Calvino Prize, among others. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, the New York Times, and Tin House, and on Selected Shorts. She is a ...more

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	The Need 3.16 avg rating — 15,862 ratings — published 2019 — 20 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
	The Beautiful Bureaucrat 3.24 avg rating — 4,433 ratings — published 2015 — 19 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
	Hum 3.57 avg rating — 2,073 ratings — published 2024 — 4 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
	Some Possible Solutions 3.62 avg rating — 660 ratings — published 2016 — 10 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
	Here Where the Sunbeams Are Green 4.01 avg rating — 492 ratings — published 2012 — 13 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
	And Yet They Were Happy 3.75 avg rating — 249 ratings — published 2011 — 4 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
	The Knowers (Electric Literature's Recommended Reading Book 69) by Helen Phillips (Goodreads Author), Benjamin Samuel (Introduction) 4.04 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 2013	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
	Gigantic Worlds by Lincoln Michel (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Nadxieli Nieto (Editor), Charles Yu (Goodreads Author) (contributor) 4.06 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2014 — 3 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
	The Doppelgängers: Excerpted from SOME POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS: Stories by Helen Phillips (Goodreads Author), Lauren Groff (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	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
	The Apartments of Strangers: Excerpted from The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips (Goodreads Author), Elliott Holt (Foreword) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	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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“...and one of those neat spiral stairways in the far corner-I wonder where it leads. Spiral staircases always seem to me like they must lead somewhere special.”
― Helen Phillips, Here Where the Sunbeams Are Green

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“Moment by moment, maddened by them and melted by them, maddened / melted, maddened / melted, maddened / melted.”
― Helen Phillips, The Need

tags: motherhood

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“It was wise to put bureaucrats in windowless offices.”
― Helen Phillips, The Beautiful Bureaucrat

tags: bureaucracy, empty, meaninglessness

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