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

[Sturogus]

Congratulations, Susan.  You continue to amaze and impress us!
Best,
Stu

 

 

 

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From: Bryan G Bradford <bryan.bradford at ucr.edu>
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Subject: [CW-Grad] 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
 
 
AndThe 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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