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In This Light

New and Selected Stories

By: Melanie Rae Thon

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In This Light

New and Selected Stories

By: Melanie Rae Thon

A vibrant selection of stories from the author of Sweet Hearts and First, Body This selection of Melanie Rae Thon's stories showcases her breathtaking ability to become each one of her characters, to move inside the bodies and minds of the dispossessed. One woman speaks for them all: "I'm your worst fear. But not the worst thing that can happen." In This Light shimmers with grace as a drunk young woman hits a Native American man on a desolate Montana road, a grieving slave murders the white child she nurses and loves, and two throwaway kids dance in the twinkling lights of a Christmas tree in a stranger's house. Thon's searing prose reveals that the radiant heat inside us all is the hope and hunger for love.

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Graywolf Press

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1555970311

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9781555970314

Girls in the Grass

By: Melanie Rae Thon

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Girls in the Grass

By: Melanie Rae Thon

Winner of a 1997 Whiting Writers' Award One of Granta's "Best Young American Novelists" Ranging across a uniquely American landscape, from rural Idaho and suburban Arizona to downtown Boston, the eleven stories in Melanie Rae Thon's eagerly awaited reissued collection, Girls in the Grass, explore with painful lyricism the harsh awakenings of adolescence: eroticism and hypocrisy, love and violence, responsibility and guilt, adult inconstancy and the random cruelty of life and death.

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231

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Macmillan + ORM

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146689251X

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9781466892514

Sweet Hearts

A Novel

By: Melanie Rae Thon

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Sweet Hearts

A Novel

By: Melanie Rae Thon

With a lyrical beauty that reverberates off every page, Sweet Hearts tells the tale of a brother and sister that is as haunting as it is majestic Sixteen-year-old Flint Zimmer escapes juvenile detention, hitchhikes 612 miles across Montana, and arrives home, trailing “bad weather and bad luck,” to be reunited with his half sister, ten-year-old Cecile, the only person he trusts and loves. Together they terrorize a local doctor and steal their mother’s car, then strike out alone on a desperate journey south to the Crow Indian Reservation, where their ancestors once lived—and where Flint’s rage and fear will erupt into irrevocable violence.

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267

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Open Road Media

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1497684978

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9781497684973

As If Fire Could Hide Us

By: Melanie Rae Thon

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As If Fire Could Hide Us

By: Melanie Rae Thon

As If Fire Could Hide Us by Melanie Rae Thon is a work of fiction composed as a love song in three movements: Orelia, in hiding; The 7th Man; and The Bodies of Birds. Each movement explores the interconnectedness of humanity from a unique vantage point, using imaginative compassion and physical materiality to reveal how our bodies and our lives are forever bound, infinitely intertwined and interchangeable"--

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206

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University of Alabama Press

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1573662003

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9781573662000

The Voice of the River

A Novel

By: Melanie Rae Thon

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The Voice of the River

A Novel

By: Melanie Rae Thon

The search for a missing boy and his dog illuminiates the inner lives of a multitude of individuals with charged needs and desires; a confession of faith, and a love song to the world.

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University of Alabama Press

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1573661627

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9781573661621

Iona Moon

A Novel

By: Melanie Rae Thon

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Iona Moon

A Novel

By: Melanie Rae Thon

In the unforgiving vortex of the American heartland, when you have to choose, you always choose life For Iona Moon, the open fields of the Kila Flats and the town of White Falls are centuries apart rather than the distance of a few miles. Mocked and feared by her classmates, Iona is only desirable to beautiful, brilliant Jay Tyler when they’re in the backseat of Willy Hamilton’s Chevy. Passion offers relief from the abuse of her older brothers and the sorrow of her mother’s slow surrender to cancer. But transient pleasures do not lead to grace—and Iona discovers she must escape everything she knows before she can learn to love the ones who have harmed her. Sensual, haunting, and tender, Iona Moon is a cry for independence, a demand for respect, and a realization that all worlds are cruel in their own ways.

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Open Road Media

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1497684986

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9781497684980

Meteors in August

A Novel

By: Melanie Rae Thon

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Meteors in August

A Novel

By: Melanie Rae Thon

Charged by lyrical prose and vivid evocations of a more-than-human world, Meteors in August proves itself a magnificent debut, a tale of despair and salvation in all their many forms Lizzie Macon is seven when her father drives a Native American named Red Elk out of their valley and comes home with blood on his clothes. The following year, her older sister, Nina, cuts her head from every family photograph and runs away with Red Elk’s son and their unborn child. Nina’s actions have consequences no one could have predicted: jittery reverberations of violence throughout the isolated northern Montana mill town of Willis. Sparks of racial prejudice and fundamentalist fever flare until one scorching August when three cataclysmic events change the town—and Lizzie’s family—forever.

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Open Road Media

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149768496X

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9781497684966

In This Light

New and Selected Stories

By: Melanie Rae Thon

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In This Light

New and Selected Stories

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Graywolf Press

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Meteors in August

A Novel

By: Melanie Rae Thon

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1497685001

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Girls in the Grass

By: Melanie Rae Thon

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Macmillan + ORM

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146689251X

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As If Fire Could Hide Us

By: Melanie Rae Thon

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First, Body

Stories

By: Melanie Rae Thon

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First, Body

Stories

By: Melanie Rae Thon

Winner of the 1997 Whiting Writers’ Award:Taut, persistent, and brilliantly cadenced, First, Body is a testament to the breathtaking virtuosity of Granta-acclaimed author Melanie Rae Thon Through nine searing works of fiction, Melanie Rae Thon looks to the people who live in the borderlands, turning a keen and compassionate eye to those marginalized by circumstance and transgression. Taking us from the cobblestone streets of Boston to a deserted Montana road, from dance halls to hospital morgues, these urgent tales careen between the faults of the body and those of the mind, exploring the irruption of the past through the present, the sudden accidents and misguided passions that make it impossible to return to the safe territory of a former life.

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161

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Open Road Media

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1497684609

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9781497684607

Sweet Hearts

A Novel

By: Melanie Rae Thon

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Sweet Hearts

A Novel

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1497684978

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The Voice of the River

A Novel

By: Melanie Rae Thon

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The search for a missing boy and his dog illuminiates the inner lives of a multitude of individuals with charged needs and desires; a confession of faith, and a love song to the world.

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1573661627

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Silence & Song

By: Melanie Rae Thon

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Silence & Song

By: Melanie Rae Thon

Award-winning writer Melanie Rae Thon's Silence & Song is a diptych, two lyric fictions hinged by a short prose poem. Inspired and informed by biology, physics, music, history, intimate violence, and miraculous resilience, the three pieces move from mourning to song.

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University of Alabama Press

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1573660531

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9781573660532

Iona Moon

A Novel

By: Melanie Rae Thon

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A Novel

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1497684986

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Elegies for Uncanny Girls

By: Jennifer Colville

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Elegies for Uncanny Girls

By: Jennifer Colville

Unsettling and perceptive, these short stories challenge American girlhood in all its delusions, conflicting messages, and treacherous terrain. Wide- and wise-eyed, mysterious girls leave their realities behind for strange and slightly unreal places at the edges of the country. Alternatively they hover over their Midwestern homes in interior worlds of their own creation. The stories in Elegies for Uncanny Girls stand at a boundary where both the girls' bodies and their tales are either their own or laid claim to by the culture and characters that surround them. A young woman whose body continually shrinks and expands moves to Los Angeles to make a movie about tragic merpeople; bewildered and seeking guidance, a new mom strikes up a conversation with a woman with detachable hands; and spurred on by a new ally who might just be a figment of her imagination, a girl decides she can choose her own friends.

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Break Away Books

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0253024293

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9780253024299

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