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Hannah Tinti

Biography

Hannah Tinti

Hannah Tinti grew up in Salem, Massachusetts. Her short story collection ANIMAL CRACKERS was a runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her bestselling novel THE GOOD THIEF won the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and an American Library Association Alex Award, and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Tinti is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the award-winning literary magazine One Story.

Hannah Tinti

Books by Hannah Tinti

by Hannah Tinti - Fiction, Literary Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

A loner who spent years living on the run, Samuel Hawley raised his daughter, Loo, on the road, always watching his back. Now that Loo is a teenager, Hawley wants only to give her a normal life. In his late wife’s hometown, he finds work as a fisherman, while Loo struggles to fit in at the local high school. She also grows more and more curious about the death of the mother she never knew. Soon, everywhere she turns, she encounters the mysteries of her parents’ lives before she was born. As Loo uncovers a history that’s darker than she could have known, the demons of her father’s past spill over into the present --- and together both Hawley and Loo must face a reckoning yet to come.