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Helen Phillips is the author of five books, including, most recently, the novel THE NEED. Her collection SOME POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS received the 2017 John Gardner Fiction Book Award. Her novel THE BEAUTIFUL BUREAUCRAT, a New York Times Notable Book of 2015, was a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her collection AND YET THEY WERE HAPPY was named a Notable Book by the Story Prize. She is also the author of the children's adventure novel HERE WHERE THE SUNBEAMS ARE GREEN. Helen is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and the Italo Calvino Prize, among others. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, the New York Times, and Tin House, and on Selected Shorts. She is a ...more

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Average rating: 3.23 · 21,637 ratings · 3,834 reviews · 15 distinct works • Similar authors
The Need
3.16 avg rating — 15,502 ratings — published 2019 — 20 editions
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The Beautiful Bureaucrat
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Some Possible Solutions
3.62 avg rating — 654 ratings — published 2016 — 10 editions
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“...and one of those neat spiral stairways in the far corner-I wonder where it leads. Spiral staircases always seem to me like they must lead somewhere special.”
― Helen Phillips, Here Where the Sunbeams Are Green
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“Moment by moment, maddened by them and melted by them, maddened / melted, maddened / melted, maddened / melted.”
― Helen Phillips, The Need
tags: motherhood
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“It was wise to put bureaucrats in windowless offices.”
― Helen Phillips, The Beautiful Bureaucrat
tags: bureaucracy, empty, meaninglessness
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