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McSweeney's
September 2012
On Sale: September 12, 2012
234 pages
ISBN: 1936365758
EAN: 9781936365753
Kindle: B009G1SKT2
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Fiction Family Life
Glorette Picard is dead. Her body was found in the alley
behind a taqueria, half-hidden by wild tobacco trees, but no
one—not Sidney, who knew she worked that alley, not her son
Victor who memorizes SAT words to avoid the guys selling
rock out of dryers in the Launderland, not her uncle
Enrique, who everyone knows will be the one to hunt down her
killer—saw her die. As the close-knit residents of Rio Seco,
California react to Glorette’s murder, it becomes clear that
her life and death are deeply entangled with the dark
history of the city, and the untouchable beauty that,
finally, killed her.
Just as Faulkner spent years
populating his fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Susan
Straight has captivated readers with her rich portrait of
Rio Seco in novels such as A Million Nightingales and
Take One Candle Light a Room. Rio Seco is a town deep
in the groves, heavy with the sweet tang of citrus and the
smell from the old morgue; it’s a place some will never
leave. In Between Heaven and Here, the final novel in
her Rio Seco trilogy, Susan Straight tells a story of
unforgettable intimacy and intensity.
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