[CW-Grad] Susan and Laila

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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...

From: bryan.bradford at ucr.edu
To: cwgrad-announcements at lists.ucr.edu; mfa_alumni at lists.ucr.edu
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 05:25:23 +0000
Subject: UCR MFA Alumni Susan Straight receives rave reviews for new novel, 'Between Heaven and Here'






The Dallas Morning News today called Susan Straight’s new novel, Between Heaven and Here it an “uplifting, gorgeous novel.”  Full review:


 
http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/books/20120920-between-heaven-and-here-by-susan-straight-is-an-uplifting-gorgeous-novel.ece

 
 
And
The Boston Globe today wrote: 
 
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…
 
Full review:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2012/09/22/between-heaven-and-here-susan-straight/FvUQFrgH1G6s5rIjMXZ8iN/story.html?s_campaign=8315
 
 





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