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Valerie Trueblood is an American writer. Among her notable works is her debut novel Seven Loves and the short story collection Search Party: Stories of Rescue (Counterpoint 2013), a finalist for the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award. Her story collection Marry or Burn (Counterpoint 2010) was a finalist for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Prize., [1] [2]

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