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Minrose Gwin

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Historical Fiction, Memoir

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Minrose Gwin is the author of three novels: The Queen of Palmyra, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick and a finalist for the John Gardner Fiction Book Award; Promise; and The Accidentals. Wishing for Snow, her 2004 memoir about the convergence of poetry and psychosis in her mother’s life, was reissued by Harper Perennial in 2011. Wearing another hat, she has written four books of literary and cultural criticism and history, most recently Remembering Medgar Evers: Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement, and coedited The Literature of the American South, a Norton anthology. Minrose began her career as a newspaper reporter. Since then, she has taught as a professor at universities across the country, most recently the University o ...more

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Average rating: 3.83 · 5,412 ratings · 880 reviews · 12 distinct works • Similar authors

	Promise 3.84 avg rating — 2,306 ratings — published 2018 — 12 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 Queen of Palmyra 3.90 avg rating — 1,855 ratings — published 2010 — 12 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 Accidentals 3.61 avg rating — 1,010 ratings — published 2019 — 8 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
	Beautiful Dreamers (Cold Mountain Fund Series) 4.41 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 2024 — 5 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
	A Woman's Civil War: A Diary with Reminiscences of the War, from March 1862 by Cornelia Peake Mcdonald, Minrose Gwin (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 1992 — 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
	Wishing for Snow: A Memoir 3.52 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2004 — 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
	Remembering Medgar Evers: Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	The Feminine and Faulkner: Reading (Beyond) Sexual Difference 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1990 — 3 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
	Black and White Women of the Old South: The Peculiar Sisterhood in American Literature really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1985 — 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
	The Woman in the Red Dress: Gender, Space, and Reading 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2002 — 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

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“There is such a thing as crazy-mother bonding. . . . It happens when one realizes the other also has had a crazy mother, and it is both painful and pleasurable. There are more crazy mothers than you might think.”
― Minrose Gwin

tags: bonding, friendship, mental-illness, wishing-for-snow

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“That's just it, Eva said with a gleam in her eyes that matched the rhinestones on her glasses, you had to get somebody to teach you, to facilitate. Literacy wasn't like a piece of my mama's lemon cake you handed over to somebody on a plate.”
― Minrose Gwin, The Queen of Palmyra

tags: literacy, mississippi-authors, mississippi-writers, reading

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“Because sometimes evil didn’t show its ugly self; it could put on the clothes of an ordinary boy. The boy could sit across the table from you, a stray lock of hair hanging in his eyes. He could be doing all the regular things boys do, shoveling in the mashed potatoes, pushing the peas around on his plate, preferring peach cobbler over rhubarb in the late summer while the wasps batted the window screen and the fan on the sideboard rotated.”
― Minrose Gwin, Promise

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What shall we read in October, 2022? Books published after 1990.

The Death of Sweet Mister, by Daniel Woodrell

18 votes 30.0%

She Walks These Hills, by Sharyn McCrumb

15 votes 25.0%

The Saints of Swallow Hill, by Donna Everhart

11 votes 18.3%

Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial, Corban Addison

7 votes 11.7%

Promise, by Minrose Gwin

5 votes 8.3%

Trouble the Water, by Rebecca Dwight Bruff

4 votes 6.7%

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