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Susan Straight


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Susan Straight was born in Riverside and lives there with her three daughters.

Awards: LA Times (2013), Edgar (2008)  see all

Genres: Literary Fiction, Historical
 
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Books containing stories by Susan Straight
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USA Noir (2013)
Best of the Akashic Noir Series
(Akashic Noir)
edited by
Johnny Temple
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Orange County Noir (2010)
(Akashic Noir)
edited by
Gary Phillips
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The United States of McSweeney's (2009)
Ten Years of Accidental Classics
edited by
Nick Hornby and Eli Horowitz

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Awards
2013 Robert Kirsch Award
2008 Edgar Award for Best Short Story : The Golden Gopher

Award nominations
2022 Kirkus Prize for Fiction (finalist) : Mecca
2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (nominee) : A Million Nightingales
2001 National Book Award for Fiction (shortlist) : Highwire Moon


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Olive Days (2024)
Jessica Elisheva Emerson
"Olive Days is a completely immersive novel, unlike anything I've read. We're in so deep with Rina, as she navigates the complicated restraints of her Orthodox Jewish community, that every meal, every walk, every discovery of her possible choices feels immediate. Emerson's prose is not about religion or desire, those abstract ideas, but about a woman's burning disbelief in the very structure of her life, and her absolute insistence on sexual passion and freedom."
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Perris, California (2024)
Rachel Stark
"Perris, California is a remarkable, audacious, and truly original debut. Stark's characters are incandescent in their fierce desire not just for survival but for love and redemption. This novel will live alongside classics of young womanhood by Kaye Gibbons, Helena Maria Viramontes, Maya Angelou, and yes, Dorothy Allison."
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What We Kept to Ourselves (2023)
Nancy Jooyoun Kim
"Those of us who love southern California know it's an entire universe where people's dreams and loves and families orbit and dance and collide in neighborhoods as diverse as the world. Nancy Jooyoun Kim knows Los Angeles so deeply that her novel brings to life loquat trees, the melancholy of staying where new roots sometimes cannot flourish, and the geography of neighbors and strangers whose loyalties turn into what might be love."

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