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Steven Rowley is the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus, a Washington Post Notable Book of 2016, The Editor, named by NPR and Esquire Magazine as one of the Best Books of 2019, and The Guncle, a Goodreads Choice Awards finalist for 2021 Novel of the Year and semi-finalist for The Thurber Prize in American Humor. His fiction has been published in twenty languages. Rowley lives in Palm Springs, CA with his husband, the writer Byron Lane.

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The Guncle (The Guncle, #1)

4.13 avg rating — 161,703 ratings — published 2021 — 24 editions
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Lily and the Octopus

3.73 avg rating — 49,212 ratings — published 2016 — 50 editions
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The Celebrants

3.63 avg rating — 46,321 ratings — published 2023 — 9 editions
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The Guncle Abroad (The Gunc...

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The Editor

3.80 avg rating — 13,321 ratings — published 2019 — 20 editions
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“It's natural, as our loved ones age, to start grieving their loss. Even before we lose them.”
Steven Rowley, Lily and the Octopus

“To focus, I think of how dogs are witnesses. How they are present for our most private moments, how they are there when we think of ourselves as alone. They witness our quarrels, our tears, our struggles, our fears, and all of our secret behaviors that we have to hide from our fellow humans. They witness without judgment.”
Steven Rowley, Lily and the Octopus

“Grief orbits the heart. Some days the circle is greater. Those are the good days. You have room to move and dance and breathe. Some days the circle is tighter. Those are the hard ones.”
Steven Rowley, The Guncle

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Rachel Sharp Thanks for accepting the friend request, Steven! Your book is absolutely brilliant. Love from Kentucky!


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