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Landon Houle
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  • ISBN 9781597098397
  • Format: Paperback
  • Weight: 227g
  • Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
  • Publication Date: 21 Nov 2019
  • Publisher: Red Hen Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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Black Creek, South Carolina: a small town in the swamps that convinces itself that nothing bad has ever happened and nothing bad ever will. Black Creek is the sort of place where young girls roam the streets free to imagine who they are and who they’ll become. Where women sell pies and plants at the courthouse square. Where the fire department rescues cats from the tops of electric poles. And what trouble there is, they’ll tell you, stays past the town limits, in the run-down house-turned-strip-club and Lake Darpo, where certain birds are going extinct. These eleven closely related portraits show that the real threats have long taken root. Black Creek is a place of poignancy and absurdity, love and loss, loneliness and the brief charges of connection. Its residents will do almost anything to protect what they think is theirs.
About Landon Houle
Landon Houle’s collection of linked stories, Living Things, is the 2017 winner of the Red Hen Press Fiction Award. Her writing has won contests at Black Warrior Review, Crab Creek Review, Dogwood, and Permafrost. Other work has appeared in Baltimore Review, Crazyhorse, Natural Bridge, Harpur Palate, River Styx, The New Guard, and elsewhere. Landon was born in Brown County, Texas, and currently lives in Darlington, South Carolina. She is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at Francis Marion University, and she is the fiction editor at Raleigh Review. https://www.landonhoule.com/

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