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Chelsea Bieker is the author of three books, most recently the novel Madwoman, a Book of the Month club pick the New York Times calls “brilliant in its depiction of the long shadows cast by domestic violence.” Her first novel, Godshot, a national indie bestseller, was longlisted for The Center For Fiction’s First Novel Prize and named a Barnes & Noble Pick of the Month. Her story collection, Heartbroke won the California Book Award and was a New York Times “Best California Book of 2022.” Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, Marie Claire UK, People, The Cut, Wall Street Journal, and others. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award, as well as residencies from MacDowell and Tin House. Raised in Hawai’i and California, she ...more

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Godshot

3.77 avg rating — 9,877 ratings — published 2020 — 8 editions
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Heartbroke

3.96 avg rating — 1,428 ratings — published 2022
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4.26 avg rating — 213 ratings — published 2024 — 8 editions
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"I was enthralled with this book from the moment I started reading. While not everything about it was relatable the parts about motherhood definitely were. The writer was so raw and real, holding nothing back. The book was sarcastic and serious, heart" Read more of this review »
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"MADWOMAN is masterful, a literary thriller about motherhood and domestic violence, the latter a topic too often sensationalized (ahem Colleen Hoover) or buried altogether, our culture ever wary of confronting the ways in which we fail women, generati" Read more of this review »
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“But that was the way with boys. Always getting things that made them better -- pants with pockets, tools for building -- while girls received adornments, things to make us appear better to others.”
Chelsea Bieker, Godshot

“I decided then to tell Artichoke to be ugly. To make herself as ugly as possible and not worry too much about beauty or what anyone thought of her. To be unpainted, to live in the breeze and stand under waterfalls and not be worried over the height of mountains, of quiet trails deep in the woods. To not be scared of roads slick with rain, of valleys dry in drought. I'd tell her 'no fear' and she'd know it was the deepest truth and she would be everything I was not. She would be wild and free. And I wouldn't worry because I knew the secret. That through all of her ugliness, all her hiking and running and jumping and falling and getting back up and saying no and saying what she wanted, her scraped hands, her freckled skin, her smart brain, she would of course be beautiful.”
Chelsea Bieker, Godshot

“Anyhow, most people never looked at anyone else with any clarity, one eye forever turned toward themselves.”
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“One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.”
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