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Congratulations, Susan. I return soon to the states and plan to buy a copy. Also, spotted the other day at the airport in Doha, Qatar was 'Secret Son' by Laila Lalami...<br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: bryan.bradford@ucr.edu<br>To: cwgrad-announcements@lists.ucr.edu; mfa_alumni@lists.ucr.edu<br>Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 05:25:23 +0000<br>Subject: UCR MFA Alumni Susan Straight receives rave reviews for new novel, 'Between Heaven and Here'<br><br>
<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="ecxMsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">And
<i>The Boston Globe</i> today wrote: </span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoPlainText"><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="ecxMsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Full review:</span></p>
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