Lauren Slater

Lauren Slater is the author of, most recently, Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed our Minds (Little, Brown).  Her works have been selected for Best American Essays eight times and she won a 2019 Pushcart Prize for Best of the Small Presses. Her books have been translated into 24 languages. A 2004 recipient of a National Endowment For The Arts grant  and a Knight Science Fellow at MIT, Slater lives and writes on her farm in Fitchburg, MA.

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Lauren Slater

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Digging Out

by Lauren Slater

A woman purchases her dream home but encounters unexpected difficulties.

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Fire Test For Love

by Lauren Slater

A marriage is put through an explosive test.

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