Marie-Helene Bertino on Embracing Multiple Selves

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“Injury doesn’t always show up the way you think it will. And family doesn’t manifest or show up the way you think it will— in my life, it hasn’t.”

Marie-Helene Bertino is the author of the novels PARAKEET (New York Times Editors’ Choice) and 2 A.M. AT THE CAT’S PAJAMAS (NPR Best Books 2014), and the story collection SAFE AS HOUSES (Iowa Short Fiction Award). Her fourth book, the novel BEAUTYLAND, is forthcoming from FSG.