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Melinda Moustakis was born in Fairbanks, Alaska, and grew up in California. Homestead, her debut novel, is inspired by her maternal grandparents who homesteaded in Point MacKenzie, Alaska. Her story collection, Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories, won the Flannery O’Connor Award, the Maurice Prize, and was a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 selection. Her work has appeared in American Short Fiction, Alaska Quarterly Review, Granta, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere, and has been awarded an O. Henry Prize. She is the recipient of the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the NEA Literature Fellowship, the Kenyon Review Fellowship, and the Rona Jaffe Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library.

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Homestead
Melinda Moustakis. Flatiron, $27.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-250-84555-9
Moustakis shines in her debut, the dramatic rendering of a young couple’s homesteader life in mid-1950s Alaska.... The wondrous descriptions of the back-breaking labor involved in clearing and farming the land, and of the region’s vast beauty, will make readers feel like they’re there. Read more of this blog post »

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	Homestead 3.50 avg rating — 3,341 ratings — published 2023 — 11 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
	Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories 3.99 avg rating — 343 ratings — published 2011 — 11 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
	The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013 by Laura Furman (Editor), Deborah Eisenberg (Contributor), Asako Serizawa (Contributor) 3.83 avg rating — 334 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	This Side of the Divide: Stories of the American West by Tobias Wolff, Nona Caspers, Melinda Moustakis (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings	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 23, Issue 71, Summer 2020) by Rebecca Markovits (Editor), Adeena Reitberger (Editor), Brandon Hobson 4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings	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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“Snow came and went, a promise and a lie, and the turned trees lose their finest gold and yellow leaves to the wind. The scrape of moose antlers on branches and the rustle of willow shrub, the rut, and the bulls in a fight over the cows, the hollow racket of antler thrown against antler, the echo through the low.
-Homestead by Melinda Moustakis”
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“This felling and cutting, the work, is for her, for them. But how could she know if you don’t tell her? is what his father would say. Start at the beginning,”
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“I dare you to tell me you can do better,” he says. “Try as I might,” she says, “can’t fault your hanging.” He gasps and clutches his heart. She laughs, and then stifles, as if caught, and this is the crack of the first tree falling.”
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