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Tiphanie Yanique

“The Living Sea,” excerpted from Monster in the Middle by Tiphanie Yanique.

Tiphanie Yanique is a novelist, poet, essayist and short story writer. Her new novel, Monster in the Middle was included on numerous best of the year lists and in the Boston Globe’s Best Books of 2021.

Stories from the book have already won many accolades: including selected as one the Best American Short Stories of 2021 by Curtis Sittenfield; and published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Harvard Review and the Yale Review.

Monster in the Middle is a radical love story that proves “when you meet your love, you are meeting all the people who ever loved the, or who were supposed to love them but didn’t love them enough or, hell, didn’t love them at all – Tiphanie Yanique.

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