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Kim Barnes is an award-winning memoirist, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and a poet whose works have appeared in many literary magazines. In Finding Caruso, she creates an unforgettable novel of two brothers and the complex ties that bind them. Alternately dark and violent, heartbreaking and tender, it is a coming-of-age tale that is both timeless and contemporary.
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About Kim Barnes
Kim
Barnes is the author of two memoirs and two previous novels, including A
Country Called Home, which received the 2009 PEN Center USA Literary Award
in fiction and was named a best book of 2008 by the Washington Post, the
Kansas City Star, and the Oregonian. She is the recipient of the
PEN/Jerard Fund Award for an emerging woman writer of nonfiction, and her first
memoir, In the Wilderness, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Her
work has appeared in a number of publications and anthologies, including the New
York Times; MORE magazine; O Magazine; Good Housekeeping; Fourth
Genre; The Georgia Review; Shenandoah; and the Pushcart Prize anthology.
Barnes is a professor of writing at the University of Idaho and lives with her
husband, the poet Robert Wrigley, on Moscow Mountain.