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<div style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px">Goldberry Long<br>
Assistant Professor<br>
Department of Creative Writing<br>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF895359"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> cwgrad-announcements-bounces@lists.ucr.edu [cwgrad-announcements-bounces@lists.ucr.edu] on behalf of Bryan G Bradford [bryan.bradford@ucr.edu]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 24, 2012 10:25 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'cwgrad-announcements@lists. ucr. edu'; mfa_alumni@lists.ucr.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [CW-Grad] Susan Straight receives rave reviews for new novel, 'Between Heaven and Here'<br>
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<div><i>The Dallas Morning News</i> today called Susan Straight’s new novel, <i>Between Heaven and Here</i> it an “uplifting, gorgeous novel.” Full review:</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/books/20120920-between-heaven-and-here-by-susan-straight-is-an-uplifting-gorgeous-novel.ece" target="_blank">http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/books/20120920-between-heaven-and-here-by-susan-straight-is-an-uplifting-gorgeous-novel.ece</a>
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<i>The Boston Globe</i> today wrote: </span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Take the community storytelling approach of Sherwood Anderson’s “Winesburg, Ohio,” but populate it with the cast of HBO’s “Treme,” then add the pathos of Toni Morrison and
change the setting to California’s Inland Empire, just east of Los Angeles, and you’ve got something close to novelist Susan Straight’s achievement with her trilogy of novels centered on the fictional communities of Rio Seco, (modeled on Riverside) in Southern
California, and the strange enclave of Sarrat, an enclave of Creole culture just across the river…</span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Full review:</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2012/09/22/between-heaven-and-here-susan-straight/FvUQFrgH1G6s5rIjMXZ8iN/story.html?s_campaign=8315" target="_blank">http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2012/09/22/between-heaven-and-here-susan-straight/FvUQFrgH1G6s5rIjMXZ8iN/story.html?s_campaign=8315</a></span></p>
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