Hester Kaplan | Award-winning Writer and Author of the novel THE TELL

"Hester Kaplan brings such fresh language and uncanny insight to whatever her keen eye lands upon—from pond water to slot machines, from a middle school classroom to a marriage—it’s as if she creates it anew..."
"...Everything, everyone, every inflection in THE TELL is charged with precision, feeling, and consequence." –—LEAH HAGER COHEN, AUTHOR OF THE GRIEF OF OTHERS
“Kaplan takes the fragments of broken lives and glues them back together, makes whole what is carelessly shattered in the brilliant style of an iconic American writer.” –—Curled Up With a Good Book
“Kaplan takes the fragments of broken lives and glues them back together, makes whole what is carelessly shattered in the brilliant style of an iconic American writer.” –—Curled Up With a Good Book
"...…provocative, beautifully written and offers great discussion potential. –—Shelf Awareness

Award-winning Writer
Her latest novel, THE TELL, is available from HarperCollins.

THE TELL, a novel, available from HarperCollins:
- Mira and Owen’s marriage is less stable than they know when Wilton Deere, an aging, no longer famous TV star, moves in to the grand house next door. With plenty of money and plenty of time to kill, Wilton is charming but ruthless as he inserts himself into the couple’s life in a quest for distraction, friendship—and most urgently—a connection with the daughter he abandoned years earlier. Facing stresses at home and work, Mira begins to accompany Wilton to a casino and is drawn to the slot machines. Escapism soon turns to full-on addiction and a growing tangle of lies and shame that threatens her fraying marriage and home. Betrayed and confused, Owen turns to the elusive Anya, Wilton’s daughter, who is testing her own ability to trust her father after many years apart. MORE...
- A CONVERSATION WITH HESTER KAPLAN
- Praise and Reviews
  - "…the characters on stage are crafted impeccably and the language is heightened to the point of being believable but highly wrought enough to distinguish it from the everyday." -Minneapolis Star-Tribune
  - "An elegant and haunting novel of love and family" -BookReporter.com
- Literary New England Radio Show

Hester received a 2012 Merit Award in Fiction from the Rhode Island State Council for The Arts.

*"The Aerialist" Salamander, vol. 17, no. 1 &
"Natural Wonder" Ploughshares, vol. 37, no. 1.

Praise and Reviews