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College on full scholarship. During her college years, she traveled to Holland where she worked in a youth hotel, to France, Spain and Morocco, and to London where she worked as an au pair. She also worked as an au pair in Paris.
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Her first novel was published in 1980, and she has since published seven book-length works of fiction, non-fiction and criticism, as well as many pieces of short fiction, short non-fiction and literary criticism. Her most recent book,
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