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Lauren grodsteins a friend of the family is a mixed. Her work has been translated into german, italian and french. Pamela griner leavy talks with lauren grodstein about the life of the novel, passion and digging deep the author of the breakout debut novel reproduction is the flaw of love and the highlyacclaimed a friend of the family, lauren grodstein alternates between new jersey where she teaches creative writing at rutgerscamden, and paris, which has been grodsteins summer home for five summers. A friend of the family by lauren grodstein 2009, cd. Pete dizinoff has spent years working toward a life that wo.