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Kristopher Jansma

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Kristopher Jansma is the author of the forthcoming novel Our Narrow Hiding Places (Ecco, 8/13) as well as the book Revisionaries: What We Can Learn from the Lost, Unfinished, and Just Plain Bad Work of Great Writers (Quirk, 10/15).

His previous novels are Why We Came to the City and The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards. He is the winner of the Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award and a Pushcart Prize, as well as the recipient of an honorable mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Kristopher is an associate professor of English and the director of the creative writing program at SUNY New Paltz.

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	The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards 3.82 avg rating — 4,829 ratings — published 2013 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Why We Came to the City 3.54 avg rating — 2,414 ratings — published 2016 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Our Narrow Hiding Places 3.85 avg rating — 132 ratings — published 2024 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Legacy: An Anthology by Regina Calcaterra (Goodreads Author), Adria J. Cimino (Goodreads Author), Kristopher Jansma (Goodreads Author) 4.14 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Les Idéalistes 3.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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I picked up TUSOL as a really depressed 13 year old who hardly engaged in anything. The book helped me flip my life around. I read everything in the book with a figurative magnifying glass, as if I could wring out all of the information and passages I love

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An unabashedly unreliable narrator baldly bluffs his way around the globe in The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards, a debut novel about...writing a...

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Kristopher Jansma and 3 other people liked Wanda's review of Our Narrow Hiding Places: "Every time I start to think WWII has become a tired and overdone setting for historical fiction, a book like this comes along to show me how wrong I am. Our Narrow Hiding Places is WWII era historical fiction about the Dutch Hunger Winter and the way " Read more of this review »
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“Does it sting like this because I've been robbed or because it was never mine to steal? ... Maybe an idea, like love, cannot ever be stolen away, just as it cannot ever have belonged to me and only me.”
― Kristopher Jansma, The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards

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“Because no one was special, and no one was immune to tragedy.”
― Kristopher Jansma, Why We Came to the City

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“She’s just this character to you. Both of us are! And we always have been. You don’t know what goes on in our heads. You don’t know where we come from or who we are . . . Can you even tell the difference anymore between what you’ve written about her and who she really, truly is?”
― Kristopher Jansma, The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards

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