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Kristina Riggle lives in West Michigan, where she writes character-driven novels about complex personal dynamics. Her debut novel, Real Life & Liars, was a Target "Breakout" pick and a "Great Lakes, Great Reads" selection by the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association. Her latest novel, Vivian in Red, is a story of 1930s Broadway and today about a lyricist, the clouded history of his most famous song, and the woman who inspired it.

Kristina has published short stories in the Cimarron Review, Literary Mama, Espresso Fiction, and elsewhere, and is a former co-editor for fiction at Literary Mama. As well as writing, she enjoys reading, yoga, dabbling in (very) amateur musical theatre, and spending lots of time with her husband, two kids ...more

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Average rating: 3.57 · 8,061 ratings · 1,111 reviews · 10 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Whole Golden World 3.67 avg rating — 2,906 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Keepsake 3.58 avg rating — 1,368 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Real Life and Liars 3.46 avg rating — 1,371 ratings — published 2009 — 19 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
	Things We Didn't Say 3.53 avg rating — 1,307 ratings — published 2011 — 5 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
	The Life You've Imagined 3.39 avg rating — 914 ratings — published 2010	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
	Vivian in Red 3.72 avg rating — 155 ratings — published 2016 — 8 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
	Hope Out Loud 3.53 avg rating — 40 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
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Why I wrote HOPE OUT LOUD

Why did I write a novella sequel to The Life You've Imagined?

Because I've missed you. I've missed you greatly, dear readers.

For various reasons (a topic for another day) it's been a little while since The Whole Golden World, and it will be a while yet before I have another novel to share with you.

I do write for its own sake. Writing, even when no one reads it, is still fun, satisfying and fulfilli Read more of this blog post »

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Published on June 30, 2015 12:21 • Tags: beach-read, novella, women-s-fiction

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The Woman Who Fooled The World: Belle Gibson’s Cancer Con, and the Darkness at the Heart of the Wellness Industry

by Beau Donelly

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The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

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“We all have the best laid plans for our children, and they go and ruin it all by growing up any way they want to. What the hell was it all for, then? (Real Life and Liars)”
― Kristina Riggle

tags: cancer, fiction, life, mothers, parenting, poignant, real-life

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“I hope someday she meets just the right man and has babies - a whole passel of babies, more than I could have - so she understands how it kills me now that she won't let me hug her when she's in obvious distress. (The Life You've Imagined)”
― Kristina Riggle

tags: coming-home, daughters, denial, love, motherhood, mothers, parenting

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“Love is hard to find and easy to lose, same as anything small and precious.”
― Kristina Riggle, The Whole Golden World

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Polls

November BOTM: Family Struggle Theme

Top 5 books move on to the second poll

We Need to Talk About Kevin

by Lionel Shriver

20 votes, 27.0%

Mercy

by Jodi Picoult

12 votes, 16.2%

Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

by Beth Hoffman

11 votes, 14.9%

These Is My Words

by Nancy E. Turner

9 votes, 12.2%

Middlesex

by Jeffrey Eugenides

9 votes, 12.2%

Every Last One

by Anna Quindlen

5 votes, 6.8%

A Small Indiscretion

by Jan Ellison

4 votes, 5.4%

Keepsake

by Kristina Riggle

2 votes, 2.7%

The Family Fang

by Kevin Wilson

1 vote, 1.4%

Saving Amelie

by Cathy Gohlke

1 vote, 1.4%

74 total votes

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