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Susan Straight

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in Riverside, California, The United States
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Susan Straight's newest novel is "Between Heaven and Here." It is the last in the Rio Seco Trilogy, which began with "A Million Nightingales" and "Take One Candle Light a Room." She has published eight novels, a novel for young readers and a children's book. She has also written essays and articles for numerous national publications, including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Nation and Harper's Magazine, and is a frequent contributor to NPR and Salon.com.

Her story "Mines," first published in Zoetrope All Story, was included in Best American Short Stories 2003. She won a Lannan Literary Award in 2007. She won a 2008 Edgar Allan Poe Award for her short story "The Golden Gopher."

She is a Professor at the University of California,
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“I have a million nightingales on the branches of my heart singing freedom.”
Susan Straight, A Million Nightingales

“The broken spine of the book shows the webbing of binder's string, and my fingers have worn white spots in the cover.”
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“The Men hunted money and sex. The women were hunted and captured, even the white women.”
Susan Straight, A Million Nightingales

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