I heartily agree, this book is gorgeous, luminous even.<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Joe Powers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Joe.Powers@sbcglobal.net" target="_blank">Joe.Powers@sbcglobal.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><font size="4" face="Calligraph421 BT">it is always nice to see such a bright light shine on the program . . . </font></div>
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<div><font size="4" face="Calligraph421 BT">con . . . grat . . . u . . . lations . . . </font></div>
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<div>all for now . . .</div>
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<div>Joe Powers</div>
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<div style="FONT:10pt arial;BACKGROUND:#e4e4e4"><b>From:</b> <a title="bryan.bradford@ucr.edu" href="mailto:bryan.bradford@ucr.edu" target="_blank">Bryan G Bradford</a> </div>
<div style="FONT:10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a title="cwgrad-announcements@lists.ucr.edu" href="mailto:'cwgrad-announcements@lists.+ucr.+edu'" target="_blank">'cwgrad-announcements@lists. ucr. edu'</a> ; <a title="mfa_alumni@lists.ucr.edu" href="mailto:mfa_alumni@lists.ucr.edu" target="_blank">mfa_alumni@lists.ucr.edu</a> </div>
<div style="FONT:10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 24, 2012 10:25 PM</div>
<div style="FONT:10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> UCR MFA Alumni Susan Straight receives rave reviews for new novel, 'Between Heaven and Here'</div>
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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><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';FONT-SIZE:12pt">And <i>The Boston Globe</i> today wrote: <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Garamond','serif';FONT-SIZE:12pt">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…<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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