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  • Boston Wives

    Helen Muller and Ali Levin are the co-authors of Boston Wives, a literary novel about female friendship, class, and what women give each other that marriages cannot. One British. One American. Friends ourselves.

  • Ali Levin

    Coach. Writer. "The story of your life is not your life. It is your story." — John Barth. Writing fiction is what's most helped me see mine. Weekly posts on what I'm finding — in my life, in my reading, in the page.

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