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StStacey Swann’s debut novel Olympus, Texas (Doubleday) was a Good Morning America Book Club selection, an Indie Next Pick, and was longlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Swann holds an M.F.A. from Texas State University and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Her writing has appeared in LitHub, Electric Literature, Texas Highways, Epoch, and other journals.

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	Olympus, Texas 3.73 avg rating — 13,507 ratings — published 2021 — 17 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
	American Short Fiction (Volume , Issue , 2007) 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2007	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
	166 palms by James Burnham, Wendy Nelson Tokunaga, Kenton Yee it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — 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
	American Short Fiction (Volume 9, Issue 33, Winter 2006) by Stacey Swann (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Melanie Moore (Publisher), Desmond Hogan (Contributor) 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2006 — 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
	American Short Fiction (Volume 12, Issue 45, Fall 2009) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009	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
	American Short Fiction (Volume 10, Issue 38, Summer 2007) by Stacey Swann (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Desmond Hogan, Laura van den Berg (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2007	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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	American Short Fiction (Volume 11, Issue 40, Winter/Spring 2008) by Stacey Swann (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Dagoberto Gilb (contributor), Kate Braverman (contributor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2008	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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“Being family just means we don't have the safety of fences between us.”
― Stacey Swann, Olympus, Texas

tags: family

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“When people define themselves in comparison to something else, they become that much more committed to never changing their minds about that something else.”
― Stacey Swann, Olympus, Texas

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“June has always been wrong in her assumptions about love--so wrong, in fact, that at this point she should assume the opposite of what she believes and then be right for once in her life. The most ridiculous, looking back, was her assumption that true love bestowed a contentment that blotted out all else. June blamed her assumption on the books she had read from ages ten to sixteen, even though she could blame herself for not noticing what the books showed bore no resemblance to her firsthand experience of matrimony, her parents. June had figured the problems lay in her parents as human beings and not some defect of love. She hadn't yet learned that since love was the creation of two people, and people were always defective in one way or another, then the love itself was necessarily flawed. She knew that now, definitively.”
― Stacey Swann, Olympus, Texas

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June Side Read Nominations ~ 1st poll
Top 5 Move onto Final poll

Horse

by Geraldine Brooks

5 votes, 16.7%

Weyward

by Emilia Hart

5 votes, 16.7%

Once There Were Wolves

by Charlotte McConaghy

4 votes, 13.3%

Olympus, Texas

by Stacey Swann

3 votes, 10.0%

Writers & Lovers

by Lily King

3 votes, 10.0%

The Book Eaters

by Sunyi Dean

2 votes, 6.7%

The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story

by Kate Summerscale

2 votes, 6.7%

Wolf Season

by Helen Benedict

2 votes, 6.7%

Harry's Trees

by Jon Cohen

2 votes, 6.7%

French Braid

by Anne Tyler

2 votes, 6.7%

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