Background
Walbert was born in New York City but raised in Georgia, Texas, Japan, and Pennsylvania.
( From the award-winning author of The Gardens of Kyoto ...)
From the award-winning author of The Gardens of Kyoto comes this witty and incisive novel about the lives and attitudes of a group of women -- once country-club housewives; today divorced, independent, and breaking the rules. In Our Kind, Kate Walbert masterfully conveys the dreams and reality of a group of women who came into the quick rush of adulthood, marriage, and child-bearing during the 1950s. Narrating from the heart of ten companions, Walbert subtly depicts all the anger, disappointment, vulnerability, and pride of her characters: "Years ago we were led down the primrose lane, then abandoned somewhere near the carp pond." Now alone, with their own daughters grown, they are finally free -- and ready to take charge: from staging an intervention for the town deity to protesting the slaughter of the country club's fairway geese, to dialing former lovers in the dead of night. Walbert's writing is quick-witted and wry, just like her characters, but also, in its cumulative effect, moving and sad. Our Kind is a brilliant, thought-provoking novel that opens a window into the world of a generation and class of women caught in a cultural limbo.
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Walbert was born in New York City but raised in Georgia, Texas, Japan, and Pennsylvania.
After graduating from Choate Rosemary Hall, she attended Northwestern University’s School of Communication before earning a Master’s degree in English from New York University.
Her novel A Short History of Women, a New York Times bestseller, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Book Award and named one of the ten best books of 2009 by the New York Times. Among other publications, her short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, and The Paris Review, and has twice been included in The Best American Short Stories and the O. Henry She has published one short story collection and four novels. Reviewing A Short History of Women, The Washington Post called Walbert “reminiscent of a host of innovative writers from Virigina Woolf to Muriel Spark to Pat Barker.”.
(NOMINATED FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE A profoun...)
( From the award-winning author of The Gardens of Kyoto ...)
(A Short History of WomenWalbert, Kate)