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Marisa Silver

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Born

The United States

Website

http://www.marisasilver.com

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Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Fiction

Member Since

March 2013

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Marisa Silver is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel, Mary Coin (published by Blue Rider Press, March 7th, 2013).

Marisa Silver directed her first film, Old Enough, while she studied at Harvard University. The film won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 1984, when Silver was 23. Silver went on to direct three more feature films, Permanent Record (1988), with Keanu Reeves, Vital Signs (1990) and He Said, She Said (1991), with Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth Perkins. The latter was co-directed with her husband-to-be, Ken Kwapis.

After making her career in Hollywood, she switched her profession and entered graduate school to become a short story writer. Her first short story appeared in The New Yorker magazine in 2000 and subseque ...more

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Average rating: 3.82 · 13,604 ratings · 2,158 reviews · 20 distinct works • Similar authors

	Mary Coin 3.91 avg rating — 9,439 ratings — published 2013 — 13 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
	Little Nothing 3.46 avg rating — 1,673 ratings — published 2016 — 18 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 God of War 3.77 avg rating — 926 ratings — published 2008 — 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
	The Mysteries 3.82 avg rating — 407 ratings — published 2021 — 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
	At Last 3.58 avg rating — 433 ratings — published 2025 — 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
	Alone With You 3.65 avg rating — 416 ratings — published 2010 — 9 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
	Babe in Paradise: Fiction 3.81 avg rating — 133 ratings — published 2001 — 7 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
	No Direction Home 3.67 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 2005 — 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
	Temporary liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2009	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
	Reisende Der Nacht by Marisa Silver (Goodreads Author), Andreas Jäger (Übersetzer) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2003	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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“Tell me how you are."
"I'm fine, Mother."
"No one is fine. Fine is a placeholder.”
― Marisa Silver, Mary Coin

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“They had never had anything but now they had nothing. Mary realized how different those two conditions were.”
― Marisa Silver, Mary Coin

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“A picture doesn't bring someone to life. A picture is a death of the moment when the picture is taken. Whenever you look at a picture, time dies again.”
― Marisa Silver, Mary Coin

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Time to choose our April Members Choice book...

Voting will stay open until March 14th

Please vote for your favorite among the nominees.

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A Woman Is No Man

by Etaf Rum

12 votes, 17.6%

Little Faith

by Nickolas Butler

8 votes, 11.8%

A Place for Us

by Fatima Farheen Mirza

8 votes, 11.8%

Endless Night

by Agatha Christie

7 votes, 10.3%

Flight of the Sparrow]

by Amy Belding Brown

7 votes, 10.3%

I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death

by Maggie O'Farrell

7 votes, 10.3%

Mr. & Mrs. American Pie

by Juliet McDaniel

6 votes, 8.8%

The Overstory

by Richard Powers

6 votes, 8.8%

The Talented Mr. Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith

3 votes, 4.4%

Mary Coin

by Marisa Silver

2 votes, 2.9%

All the Lives We Never Lived

by Anuradha Roy

2 votes, 2.9%

68 total votes

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