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Alyson Hagy, a novelist and short story writer, was raised on a farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and now lives and teaches in Laramie, Wyoming.

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	Scribe 3.18 avg rating — 1,651 ratings — published 2018 — 10 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
	Boleto 3.63 avg rating — 439 ratings — published 2007 — 9 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
	Ghosts of Wyoming 3.34 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 2012 — 6 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
	Keeneland : A Novel 3.48 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2000 — 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
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	Graveyard of the Atlantic 4.29 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2000 — 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
	Hardware River Stories 4.37 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1991 — 6 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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The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee

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The Horse Has Six Legs: An Anthology of Serbian Poetry by Charles Simic

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Skirmish: Poems by Dobby Gibson

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Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson

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Mattaponi Queen: Stories by Belle Boggs

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Obabakoak by Bernardo Atxaga

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The Stranger Manual: Poems by Catie Rosemurgy

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Ghosts of Wyoming by Alyson Hagy

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To Siberia by Per Petterson

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Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty by Tony Hoagland

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Apr 21, 2012 01:06PM

Alicia--Tough one for me. I don't think of American fiction in regional terms like I once did. I guess that's because I've lived in some many different regions.

But. Faulkner, for sure. Probably Absalom, Absalom. And my list would include story collections by Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Peter Taylor, and Katherine Anne Porter. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy. Cane by Jean Toomer, yes. A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines (or maybe A Gathering of Old Men). To Kill a Mockingbird. Beloved by Toni Morrison, perhaps?

And your picks?

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Apr 20, 2012 09:20AM