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Judith Turner-Yamamoto

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Thrilled to share LOVING THE DEAD AND GONE, a Mariel Hemingway Book Club pick, is the 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYS) Gold Medalist in Southern Regional Fiction and was shortlisted for the 2023 Eric Hoffer Book Awards Grand Prize and awarded an honorable mention in General Fiction! The North Carolina Society of Historians awarded LOVING THE DEAD AND GONE the 2023 Historical Novel Award. Thanks to Publishers Weekly for calling LOVING THE DEAD AND GONE "A bittersweet fantastical debut."
JUDITH TURNER-YAMAMOTO grew up in rural North Carolina in a small mill town. An art historian, she first came to writing through learning to appraise what she saw and to describe what moved her. Her fiction has appeared in StorySOUTH, Mississippi
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Revisiting Olive Kitteridge

I read this novel in 2008 when it first came out. I recently picked it up again--in the book exchange in the laundry room of my building, of all places.

A book meets you where you are, and I find these characters finding and moving me anew, in a reflective place, taking measure of the past in all its layered and nuanced complexities.
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“Death can make you over if you let it."
--Loving the Dead and Gone”
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“Everywhere she looked she saw their marriage. So big, like the ocean it went on and on, touching everything.”
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“Death can make you over if you let it."
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“Everywhere she looked she saw their marriage. So big, like the ocean it went on and on, touching everything.”
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Kay Sloan Judith Turner-Yamamoto has written a brilliantly lyrical novel born of her native Southern heritage. Within these pages are the compelling and unforgettable characters of a North Carolina family steeped in love and generational conflict tempered by a tough country spirit.”—Kay Sloan, author of The Patron Saint of Red Chevys, a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection


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