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This is a beautifully written and emotional little memoir, comprised of non-sequential short anecdotes which encapsulate the year following the sudden death of the author's thirty-eight-year-old daughter. The author and his wife move into their son-in-law's home to help care for their three young grandchildren. The sparse format ...
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Susann Cokal is a Californian transplanted to Richmond, Virginia, where she teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her novels are:
Breath and Bones (Unbridled Books, 2005, hardcover fiction): An ethereal but tubercular artist's model chases a lost love across the Wild West, searching among Utah's polygamists, Colorado's brothels, and California's crackpot doctors. Publishers Weekly: "Steamy … a literary bodice-ripper." Library Journal: "Riveting." Kirkus: "a writer who definitely has her own unique voice."
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