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Maine was named a Best Book of the Year by Time magazine and a Washington Post notable book for 2011.

The Engagements was one of People magazine's top 10 books of 2013 and an Irish Times best book of the year,

and it seemed to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon and distributed by Fox 2000, and it will be translated into 17 languages.

Her latest novel, Saints for All Occasions, was named one of the ten best books of the year by the Washington Post, a New York Times critics pick for 2017, and a New England book award nominee.

Courtney's writing has also appeared in the New York Times Book Review, The Chicago Tribune, New York Magazine, L, glamour, real simple, O, the Oprah Magazine, and many others. She is co-editor with Courtney Martin of the essay anthology Click, when we knew we were feminists. In 2017, she wrote the four words to the new editions of two of her favorite classic novels, Anne of Green Gables and Little Women.

A Massachusetts native, Courtney now lives in New York with her husband and two children.

And by the way, friends and strangers has been on every most anticipated list and best book of the summer list there basically is for 2020, including mine, which I wrote for Good Morning America.

Enjoy the episode. So welcome, Courtney. Thanks for coming on moms. Don't I wrote for Good Morning America. Enjoy the episode.

So welcome, Courtney. Thanks for coming on moms. Don't have time to read books today. Thank you so much for having me. And your book is coming out at the end of June, but we're recording this mid-quarantine. So it's via Skype. I just wanted to get that out there to set the stage. Yeah, that's right. So hopefully by June, we will all be out and about in bookstores buying your book.

I'm hoping.

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