Michelle Latiolais
Michelle Latiolais is an English professor and co-director of the Programs in Writing at the University of California at Irvine. Her novel 'Even Now' won the Gold Medal for Fiction from the Commonwealth Club of California. Her most recent novel, 'A Proper Knowledge,' was published by Bellevue...
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Michelle Latiolais is an English professor and co-director of the Programs in Writing at the University of California at Irvine. Her novel 'Even Now' won the Gold Medal for Fiction from the Commonwealth Club of California. Her most recent novel, 'A Proper Knowledge,' was published by Bellevue Literary Press. 'Widow' was largely written after the tragic death of Latiolais' husband, and her stories explore the physiology of grief -- reminding us that the inner life is best understood through the medium of storytelling.
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”You get born, and you nurse on lies, and you get weaned on lies, and you learn fancier lies at school. You live all your life on lies, and then maybe when you’re ready to die, it comes to you that there’s nothing, nothing but yourself and what you could have done. Only you ain’t done it, because th...
Rating: 4.5* of fiveThe Book Description: BELIEVER BOOK AWARD FINALIST�In prose shimmering with intelligence and compassion, Michelle Latiolais dissects the essentials of everyday life to find the heartbeat within.—Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones�Widow is a hymn to reverence, simultaneously...
i was going to give this book a three because it's written very well, but i just couldn't bring myself to do it. the thing of it is, is that i really found it hard to bear. i normally like visceral storytelling, and certainly i get some very clear descriptions of the insides of buffalo, but i don't ...
This is an exciting and well-written novel, setting the viscous brutality and gentle kindness of men against the backdrop of a vivid, nostalgic depiction of the American West. The aspects of human nature which Williams chooses to contrast are counterbalanced by the opposing forces in the wild lands ...
death – stupidity – blizzard – carnage – fire – sex – living hellthough not necessarily in that order
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