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THE DISTANCE HOME
A "riveting family saga" (Mary Karr) set in the American West, about sibling rivalry, dark secrets, and a young girl's struggle with freedom and artistic desire.
Set in a circa-1960s rural South Dakota--a hardscrabble place of cattle buyers, homegrown ballet studios, casual drug abuse, and unmitigated pressure to conform, all amid the great, vast natural beauty of the region--the book portrays a loving but struggling young family in turmoil, and two siblings, Rene and Leon, who opt for different but equally extreme means of escaping the burdens of home.
By turns funny and tragic, lyrical and terse, Paula Saunders's debut examines elements of human nature: it is an affecting novel, in which the author's compassionate narration allows us to sympathize, in turn, with everyone involved.
This novel draws on Paula's family history--both her father and her grandfather were independent cattle brokers and her mother a homemaker who then became a dance instructor. Paula grew up in Rapid City, South Dakota and left home at 15 to study ballet, eventually moving to New York City where she danced as an apprenticeship with the Harkness Ballet, under renowned ballet master David Howard.
The author graduated Syracuse University Creative Writing Program (where she studied with Tobias Wolff and Douglas Unger) and is a recipient of the prestigious Schweitzer Humanities Fellowship at SUNY Albany, where she studied with Toni Morrison. She lives in California with her husband (author George Saunders).
By turns funny and tragic, lyrical and terse, Paula Saunders's debut examines elements of human nature: it is an affecting novel, in which the author's compassionate narration allows us to sympathize, in turn, with everyone involved.
This novel draws on Paula's family history--both her father and her grandfather were independent cattle brokers and her mother a homemaker who then became a dance instructor. Paula grew up in Rapid City, South Dakota and left home at 15 to study ballet, eventually moving to New York City where she danced as an apprenticeship with the Harkness Ballet, under renowned ballet master David Howard.
The author graduated Syracuse University Creative Writing Program (where she studied with Tobias Wolff and Douglas Unger) and is a recipient of the prestigious Schweitzer Humanities Fellowship at SUNY Albany, where she studied with Toni Morrison. She lives in California with her husband (author George Saunders).
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Published 2018-08-07 by Random House |
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Published 2018-08-07 by Random House |