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Susie Finkbeiner is the author of The All-American, All Manner of Things, and A Cup of Dust. She lives in West Michigan with her husband and three children.

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	All Manner of Things 4.40 avg rating — 2,867 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	The All-American 4.17 avg rating — 2,346 ratings — published 2023 — 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
	A Cup of Dust (Pearl Spence, #1) 4.18 avg rating — 1,906 ratings — published 2015 — 10 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
	Stories That Bind Us 4.17 avg rating — 1,309 ratings — published 2020 — 11 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 Nature of Small Birds 4.01 avg rating — 1,209 ratings — published 2021 — 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
	A Trail of Crumbs: A Novel of the Great Depression (Pearl Spence #2) 4.29 avg rating — 817 ratings — published 2017 — 10 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
	A Song of Home: A Novel of the Swing Era (Pearl Spence #3) 4.44 avg rating — 649 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	Paint Chips 4.46 avg rating — 270 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Something Borrowed by Rachel Scott McDaniel (Goodreads Author), Susie Finkbeiner (Goodreads Author), Allison Pittman (Goodreads Author) 4.37 avg rating — 188 ratings — published 2024 — 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
	My Mother's Chamomile 4.58 avg rating — 169 ratings — published 2014 — 3 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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Of Birds and Providence

I don’t know how this story ends.

But I do know how it started.

We’d just finished watching Jeopardy! on the eve of my twin sons’ thirteenth birthday. I sent the boys outside to run off the last of their energy before bed and I stepped into the kitchen to do up the supper dishes.

One boy came back in, telling me I had to come to the backyard.

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“That was when I learned that kindness could break a heart just as sure as meanness. The difference was the kindness made that broken heart softer. Meanness just made the heart want to be hard.”
― Susie Finkbeiner, A Cup of Dust

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“I had plenty of friends if the characters from books counted.”
― Susie Finkbeiner, The All-American

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“The world was full of awful people who did terrible and ugly things. Most of them were only awful because of the scars on their hearts.”
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Those We Thought We Knew, by David Joy

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Gods and Generals, by Jeff Shaara

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The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had, by Kristin Levine

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In the Season of Blood and Gold, by Taylor Brown

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A Cup of Dust, by Susie Finkbeiner

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“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
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I REALLY, REALLY Liked Night Circus! Very imaginative - different from anything else I'd ever read. I hope you like it!!! I enjoyed Bel Canto as well!!!

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