Chapter One

Sister Rachel, teacup in hand, stood at the great window of the mansion and looked out toward the abandoned shoe factory on the far side of the river. She was wondering if she should tell the Mother General, asleep, dying in the bed behind her, that her brother—Rachel's—was not only in jail, sentenced to four years at Chevaren medium-security prison, but was revealed to be the heretofore anonymous benefactor who had donated to their Order more than a
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—Joseph Caldwell, from Bread For The Baker's Child

Lia Purpura is interviewed in Orion.

The Lambda Literary Foundation has awarded Brian Leung its Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize.

T Fleischmann's Syzygy, Beauty is reviewed in the Star Tribune.

05-19-2012
Small Fires

Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice, 2nd Floor Ekstrom Library Belknap Campus University of Louisville 2301 S. Third Street Louisville, KY 40292
2:00 pm Kentucky Women's Book Festival Afternoon session: “Shifting the Gaze: From the Retrospective Memoir to the Coming of Age Narrative”


U of L Women's Center
502.852.8976
http://louisville.edu/womenscenter/kwbf

The Children
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Syzygy, Beauty
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Rough Likeness
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Small Fires
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This is a daughter’s story. In Small Fires, Julie Marie Wade recreates the landscape of her childhood with a lacemaker’s care, then t ... [read more]

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