Sharon Dilworth
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Each of the ten stories in Sharon Dilworth's new collection has its special appeal; better still, they come together to form a finely crafted and beautifully balanced whole. Dilworth's fully realized landscapes range from Pittsburgh to Hawaii to Michigan's Upper Peninsula to Europe. They are inhabited by women, men, friends, lovers, neighbors, parents, and children, all of whom remind us that life is rarely what we think it should be. At once poignant...
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The winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award, The Long White is predominantly set in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a place where the land and weather frequently dictate one's life. In Dilworth's hands, place and character merge to create wonderfully interesting worlds and scenarios often finding individuals forced to cope with a situation they'd tried avoiding just as long as possible.