Hanna Halperin is the author of two novels,
Something Wild and
I Could Live Here Forever.
Something Wild won the 2021 Edward Lewis
Wallant Award and was a finalist for the 2021 National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction. Her stories have been published in
The Kenyon Review,
n+1,
New Ohio Review, and
Joyland. She has taught fiction workshops at GrubStreet in Boston and worked as a domestic violence counselor.
At Electric Lit Halperin tagged
nine novels about characters looking to be transformed by sex or love, including:
A Novel Obsession by Caitlin Barasch
In A Novel Obsession, bookseller Naomi has great aspirations of writing a novel, but she doesn’t think she has interesting enough 
material. For inspiration, she begins to stalk her boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend, Rosemary Pierce. The more she learns about Rosemary, the hungrier she becomes for access to Rosemary—and the further she pushes, until she is totally enmeshed in Rosemary’s life. Naomi’s obsession with Rosemary grows huge and unmanageable, invasive, and quietly erotic. Barasch reminds us of all the ways we do so many of the very same things—compare, fixate and keep tabs. She is an honest and funny writer and this book was unputdownable.
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another entry on the list.
--Marshal Zeringue
Wallant Award and was a finalist for the 2021 National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction. Her stories have been published in The Kenyon Review, n+1, New Ohio Review, and Joyland. She has taught fiction workshops at GrubStreet in Boston and worked as a domestic violence counselor.
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