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Written by Virginia Freedman
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Picara by Pat MacEnulty
Publisher: Livingston Press (AL); 1 edition (October 15, 2009)
ISBN:978-1-60489-037-2 Library Binding $27
ISBN: 978-1-60489-038-9 Trade Paper $16.95
290 pages
Eli Burnes grows up under the care of Mattie, an opera singer, and Miz Johnnie, the family maid, in Augusta, Georgia. Eli’s alcoholic mother has been gone since Eli was three, and Eli’s father, Willie, is a disc jockey and anti-war activist who lives in Webster Groves, Missouri, with a new wife and two young sons. After Mattie dies of cancer and Miz Johnnie decides to retire, Eli runs away with a draft dodger, but when things go wrong with their plans, she must go live with her father and his family. Secrets of the past and present begin to unravel the happy life she creates. Witnessing and sometimes participating in the protests, drug use and musical fervor of the times, Eli learns about love, forgiveness and survival.
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The Triangle is looking for a few good writers
From the City of Raleigh Arts Commission:
Piedmont Laureate Call for Applications
The Piedmont Laureate program will be accepting applications from creative nonfiction writers for 2011! Authors of works including biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, travel writings, and new journalism are eligible to apply. Writers must be residents of Alamance, Durham, Orange and/or [...]
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M-V-P! M-V-P!
In his latest Musings post, Scott Owens heaps praise on the invaluable Glenda Beall, and I couldn’t agree more.
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Bravo, Nancy
Congratulations to the Network’s good friend Nancy Olson, owner of Raleigh’s Quail Ridge Books & Music, who will receive a 2010 Raleigh Medal of the Arts in a ceremony on October 6. Nancy has done as much for North Carolina’s writers, and North Carolina’s literary culture, as anyone, and this honor is well-deserved.
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Hat's Off!
| ..... to Susan Meyers. Her poetry book "Keep and Give Away" from USC Press has won the SIBA (Southern Independent Bookseller Alliance) award. |
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