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Winner of a Whiting Award, author Melanie Sumner captivates listeners with her darkly humorous tale about the Peppers family. After the accidental death of her older brother, teenager Louise can't get her life back on track. When she runs away to seek comfort from circus performers, and in alcohol and sex, her parents fight to bring her home. Will their love, however suffocating and complicated, be enough to bring Louise to her senses? "Sumner brings a twist to this noteworthy fiction debut that is both disturbing and comic."-Library Journal
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About Melanie Sumner
Melanie
Sumner is the award-winning author of The Ghost of Milagro Creek, The
School of Beauty and Charm, and Polite
Society. Her short fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, the
New York Times, Seventeen, and many other magazines and anthologies. She is the
recipient of a NEA Fellowship in fiction, a PEN
America grant, a Whiting Award, and was named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists in 1995. She is currently an assistant professor of English at Kennesaw
State University, Georgia.
About Julia Gibson
Julia Gibson received an MFA from New York University. She has appeared on Broadway and other major stages in New York, as well as regional theaters from Dallas to San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia, and more. Gibson has played major roles in productions such as The Seagull, Angels in America, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Her television and film credits include Michael Clayton, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Spin City, and One Life to Live.