Content Burns

by Stephanie A. Smith

"Content Burns" chronicles the parallel stories of two women from the same family who bear the same Puritan name, Content Burns, and who are separated by three One born a Pequot Indian, originally named Asawanuw (Corn-silk), who converts and marries into the English Burns family in 1637, and one, nicknamed Cabbi, in modern-day New York. They are unknown to each other yet both women must learn how to survive an historical trauma that changed the course of American history, and their the massacre of the Pequot tribe in 1637 and the loss of the Twin Towers on 9/11.

194 pages, ebook

First published February 15, 2014

About the author

Stephanie A. Smith holds a PhD from UC Berkeley and teaches American Literature at the University of Florida. She studied fiction with both Ursula K. Le Guin and Michael Cunningham, and is the author of six novels, including the recent WARPAINT Trilogy (Thames River Press) and two books of criticism, along with numerous essays, chapters, reviews and short stories.

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