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Carole Giangrande

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I'm the author of four novels - The Tender Birds (2019), All That is Solid Melts into Air (2017), winner of the 2018 Independent Publishers Gold Medal for Literary Fiction (both published by Inanna), A Forest Burning (2000) and An Ordinary Star (2004), both published by Cormorant Books, along with a short story collection, Missing Persons (1994). My novellas include A Gardener on the Moon (Quattro, 2010), winner of the Ken Klonsky Award; Midsummer (2014) and Here Comes The Dreamer (2015) both published by Inanna. I also write essays and poetry; my essay "Goshawk" won a Lyric Essay Award in July 2016 and was published in Eastern Iowa Review, and another essay, "Death of a Red-Tailed Hawk," appeared in EcoTheo Review (Oct. 2018) and was nomin ...more

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Carole Giangrande I'm looking forward to reading Eva Stachniak's The Chosen Maiden, then Terri Favro's Sputnik's Children, George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo, and th…moreI'm looking forward to reading Eva Stachniak's The Chosen Maiden, then Terri Favro's Sputnik's Children, George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo, and then at least one of those classics that I've never gotten around to reading - this time, William Faulkner' As I Lay Dying. Quite a spread of styles and subjects! Can't wait to get started!(less)

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What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Carole Giangrande There are a lot of little mysteries in my life that are more like questions - why did you choose this path, and not some other? Yet I can't imagine ho…moreThere are a lot of little mysteries in my life that are more like questions - why did you choose this path, and not some other? Yet I can't imagine how anyone could make them a plot for a book! They're not too thrilling. Such as: what made me choose to leave New York and come to Canada for my university education? It changed my life for the better, and things might have been very different had I not done that. It would take a very inventive writer to turn it into a suspenseful, mysterious story!(less)

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	All That Is Solid Melts Into Air (Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series) 3.71 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Midsummer 4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Here Comes the Dreamer 4.13 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Ordinary Star 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Gardener on the Moon it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	A forest burning: A novel 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2000	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.”
― Czeslaw Milosz

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“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
― Albert Camus

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