<font color='black' size='4' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'>Con<font color="black" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4">gratulations, Susan. You continue to amaze and impress us!<br>
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Stu<br>
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From: Bryan G Bradford <bryan.bradford@ucr.edu><br>
To: 'cwgrad-announcements@lists. ucr. edu' <cwgrad-announcements@lists.ucr.edu>; mfa_alumni <mfa_alumni@lists.ucr.edu><br>
Sent: Mon, Sep 24, 2012 10:27 pm<br>
Subject: [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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<div class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:">And
<i>The Boston Globe</i> today wrote: </span></div>
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<div class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:">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></div>
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<div class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:">Full review:</span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2012/09/22/between-heaven-and-here-susan-straight/FvUQFrgH1G6s5rIjMXZ8iN/story.html?s_campaign=8315">http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2012/09/22/between-heaven-and-here-susan-straight/FvUQFrgH1G6s5rIjMXZ8iN/story.html?s_campaign=8315</a></span></div>
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