[CW-Grad] Fwd: Feb 20 Inlandia Literary Laureate event

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>     From: Inlandia Institute
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>     Date: February 14, 2011 8:15:34 PM EST
>     To: gailarose at yahoo.com
>     Subject: Feb 20 Inlandia Literary Laureate event
>     Reply-To: marion at inlandiainstitute.org
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>                        finalist Straight (Highwire        
>   Join Our Mailing     Moon, 2001, etc.), comes Take      
>         List           One Candle Light A Room, a         
>                        searing, ultimately redemptive     
>                        novel about America's legacy of    
>                        racial violence and a woman's      
>                        struggle to forge her own          
>                        identity. Deeply rooted in the     
>                        African-American experience, yet   
>                        filled with insights that          
>                        resonate for anyone seeking to     
>                        make a better life without         
>                        disowning the past. Straight       
>                        writes about the thorny subject    
>                        of race with sensitivity and       
>                        nuance.                            
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>                        Susan Straight has published six   
>                        novels, including Highwire         
>                        Moon , the 2001 Finalist for the   
>                        National Book Award, and A         
>                        Million Nightingales, th e 2006    
>                        Finalist for the LATimes Book      
>                        Prize.  Her new novel, Take One    
>                        Candle Light a Room, is a          
>                        companion to Nightingales.  Her    
>                        short story "The Golden Gopher,"   
>                        a chapter in the novel, won the    
>                        2008 Edgar Award for best          
>                        Mystery Story, and "El Ojo de      
>                        Agua," a story about the novel's   
>                        men, won a 2007 O Henry Prize.     
>                        She has published stories and      
>                        essays in The New York Times,      
>                        The Los Angeles Times, Harpers,    
>                        Zoetrope, McSweeneys, The          
>                        Believer, Black Clock, and         
>                        elsewhere.  She was born in        
>                        Riverside, California, where she   
>                        lives with her family.             
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