[CW-Grad] Susan Straight receives rave reviews for new novel, 'Between Heaven and Here'

[Eric Shonkwiler]

Congratulations, Susan.

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Michael Jayme <michael.jayme at ucr.edu>wrote:

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>      for new novel, 'Between Heaven and Here'
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> Yay indeed!
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> On Sep 25, 2012, at 6:12 AM, Goldberry Long wrote:
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> YAY SUSAN!!
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> Goldberry Long
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Creative Writing
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> cwgrad-announcements-bounces at lists.ucr.edu] on behalf of Bryan G Bradford
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> Subject: [CW-Grad] Susan Straight receives rave reviews for new novel,
> 'Between Heaven and Here'
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> The Dallas Morning News today called Susan Straight’s new novel, Between
> Heaven and Here it an “uplifting, gorgeous novel.”  Full review:
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> http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/books/20120920-between-heaven-and-here-by-susan-straight-is-an-uplifting-gorgeous-novel.ece
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> >
> > 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…
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> > Full review:
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> 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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