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

[jacquelyn bang]

I heartily agree, this book is gorgeous, luminous even.

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Joe Powers <Joe.Powers at sbcglobal.net>wrote:

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> con . . . grat . . . u . . . lations . . .
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> all for now . . .
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>  ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Bryan G Bradford <bryan.bradford at ucr.edu>
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> *Sent:* Monday, September 24, 2012 10:25 PM
> *Subject:* UCR MFA Alumni 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: ****
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> 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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