In January 1993 , the short story " Friend of the Family " , her fiction debut in print , appeared in '' The New Yorker '' . Her short fiction has appeared in '' Story '' , '' Redbook '' , '' Southwest Review '' , '' Gargoyle '' , '' The Connecticut Review '' , the '' Vestal Review '' , '' Boulevard Magenta '' " five Chapters , " and elsewhere . Her short story " Sleeping " , originally in '' Vestal Review '' and anthologized several times , was made into a short dramatic film by Group-Six Productions . Her first novel , '' Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear '' , was published in 1995 . She was named by '' Granta '' to the controversial list of 50 Best Young American Novelists in 1996 . Her second novel , '' The Music Lesson '' , was published in 1999 and has since been translated into thirteen foreign languages . It was a selection of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle . Her third novel , '' The Little Women '' , a Finalist for the Paterson Fiction Prize , was published 2003 . All three novels have been named Notable Books by The New York Times Book Review . In 2006 her fourth novel , '' Triangle '' , which is about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911 , was published . It won the 2007 Connecticut Book Award for Fiction and was longlisted for the 2008 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award . In July 2011 , a memoir called '' The Memory of All That : George Gershwin , Kay Swift , and My Family 's Legacy of Infidelities , '' was published by Crown , and in a paperback edition in June 2012 by Broadway Books . Her fifth novel , '' True Confections , '' was published in January , 2010 . Her sixth novel , '' Still Life With Monkey , '' was published by Paul Dry Books in 2018 . Her literary essays have appeared in numerous recent anthologies
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
Katharine Weber