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Mary Miller

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in Mississippi

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Fiction, Memoir

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Biloxi, Always Happy Hour, The Last Days of California, Big World

Stories in Paris Review, McSweeney's Quarterly, American Short Fiction, New Stories from the South, Oxford American, Mid-American Review, Ninth Letter, Indiana Review, and Mississippi Review.

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Average rating: 3.45 · 8,079 ratings · 1,259 reviews · 14 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Last Days of California 3.38 avg rating — 3,320 ratings — published 2013 — 15 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
	Biloxi 3.29 avg rating — 2,214 ratings — published 2019 — 12 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
	Always Happy Hour: Stories 3.41 avg rating — 1,426 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	Big World 4.33 avg rating — 463 ratings — published 2009 — 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
	Mississippi Noir (Akashic Noir) by Tom Franklin (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ace Atkins (Goodreads Author), Michael Farris Smith (Goodreads Author) 3.68 avg rating — 352 ratings — published 2016 — 8 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
	McSweeney's #31 by Dave Eggers (Editor), Douglas Coupland (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Joy Williams (Contributor) 3.65 avg rating — 223 ratings — published 2009 — 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
	Less Shiny 4.55 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2008	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
	Choose Wisely: 35 Women Up To No Good by H.L. Nelson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Joanne Merriam (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Janet Shell Anderson 3.67 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Elizabeth & Mary & Elle: Three New Fictions by Elizabeth Ellen, Mary Miller (Goodreads Author), Elle Nash (Goodreads Author) 4.65 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2019 — 2 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
	Pearl by Mary Miller (Goodreads Author), Elizabeth Ellen (Introduction) 2.67 avg rating — 3 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

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I love all of Vlautin's work, and this novel may be my favorite. There's excellent character development, as always, but The Night Always Comes stands apart for its nail-biting tension, the number of times I had to put the book down and say 'no no no ...more
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Mary and 47 other people liked William Boyle's review of The Night Always Comes: ""Most people don't care about doing good. Most people just push you out of the way and grab what they want." I first read Willy Vlautin back in 2008. NORTHLINE had just come out. I bought it and THE MOTEL LIFE based on the blurbs from Tom Franklin an" Read more of this review »
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Mary and 2 other people liked Vincent Scarpa's review of Last Days of the Dog-Men: Stories: "“Humans are aware of very little, it seems to me, the artificial brainy side of life, the worries and bills and the mechanisms of jobs, the doltish psychologies we've placed over our lives like a stencil. A dog keeps his life simple and unadorned. He" Read more of this review »
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“But all of this would come later and take time, and perhaps it would take me longer than it would take other people but there were some who never left home, who never went anywhere at all.”
― Mary Miller, Always Happy Hour: Stories

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“Once you leave a place like that, so long as it isn’t your hometown, you know you won’t ever have to see any of those people again.”
― Mary Miller, Always Happy Hour: Stories

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“My boyfriend said he liked natural women, but it wasn’t really what he liked—it was only what he wanted to like. Perhaps it made him seem like a nicer guy to himself. We”
― Mary Miller, Always Happy Hour: Stories

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Mary’s Quotes

“That's all I think I ever wanted, to go my own way and maybe find some love here and there.”
― Rita Mae Brown

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“I can accept that all I’ve ever wanted is not very special—all I’ve ever wanted, like most people, is proof of love.”
― Chloe Caldwell, Legs Get Led Astray

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“I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade in exactly the spot you were standing in, and jump, and pray. It is the momentum of last resort.”
― Renata Adler, Speedboat

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