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Courtney Miller Santo teaches creative writing at the University of Memphis, where she received her MFA. She has a BA in journalism from Washington and Lee University and although born and raised in Portland, Oregon, she’s spent most of her adult life in the South. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Los Angeles Review, Irreantum, Sunstone and Segullah. Her debut novel THE ROOTS OF THE OLIVE TREE will be published this year by William Morrow. For more information please visit www.courtneysanto.com. ...more

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A New Tradition for Mother’s Day

Start a New Mother’s Day Tradition

Guilt and celebration are strange bedfellows. Throw in obligation and expectations and you have the plot of most indie films and every Tennessee Williams play. What have we done with that potent mix? Created a pseudo holiday. For me nothing made this more clear than that lovely poem by Billy Collins

My own kids detest Mother’s Day. I don’t know if detest is t

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	The Roots of the Olive Tree 3.38 avg rating — 4,683 ratings — published 2012 — 26 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
	Three Story House 3.03 avg rating — 801 ratings — published 2014 — 13 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
	Under the Olive Tree 3.14 avg rating — 289 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Het familiehuis by Courtney Miller Santo (Goodreads Author), Titia Ram (Translator) 2.63 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
	Zeytin Ağacı by Courtney Miller Santo (Goodreads Author), Medina Azadoğlu (Translator) 3.50 avg rating — 4 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
	Evergreen - excerpt from 2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Entry it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	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 Pinch Journal by Courtney Miller Santo (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Courtney Craggett (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Margaret Adams (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	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
	Five That Grabbed the Gold: Memphis magazine presents prize-winning stories from its annual fiction contest for Mid-South writers by Richard Alley, Ellen Morris Prewitt (Goodreads Author), Jackson McKenzie liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013	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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“I’d put more distance between us. Having us here, always together hasn’t allowed for any fondness to grow between us.”
― Courtney Miller Santo, The Roots of the Olive Tree

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“Anna used to tell her children that God never gave one commandment about liking a person and she’d learned over the years that it was possible to love without having a lot of like in your heart.”
― Courtney Miller Santo, The Roots of the Olive Tree

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“Right,” Isobel said. “Like that experiment that shows the different ways kids and adults think. If you give people a picture of a monkey, an orange, and a banana, the adults always put the orange and the banana together. But kids—” “Kids and some of us creative types,” Elyse said, taking back control of the conversation, “will always sort the monkey with the banana.”
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