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Annie's 6th book, PARADISE UNDONE: A NOVEL OF JONESTOWN, arrives in the world on the 45th anniversary of the Jonestown massacre after a very long journey of 20 years since germination of the idea. Hundreds of publishers rejected it, 17 contest judges placed it as a finalist, and a chance encounter with a new British publisher led to this happy occasion.
Thank you Inkspot!
The novel has now received six positive reviews from newspapers and journals. See the author's website for more.
PARADISE UNDONE begins with a reporter interviewing Watts, one of the remaining survivors of the largest massacre of American citizens before 9/11. Four protagonists, Black, White, male and female, among them Mrs. Jim Jones and the Guyanese ambassador to the United States, make their way in and out of Peoples Temple, circling around its leader, Jim Jones, over a period of forty years. Sadly, good people following a charismatic leader to their deaths is a story that never ages,.
PUT OFF MY SACKCLOTH: ESSAYS (The Humble Essayist
Press 2021) contains autobiographical essays charting a lifetime of struggle,
moving from darkness into the light. All the essays have been published
elsewhere, some of them anthologized.
AND DARKNESS WAS UNDER HIS FEET: STORIES OF A FAMILY (2009),won
the Litchfield Review Award for Short Fiction and was a finalist in the Indie
Book Awards category for the Short Story. It tells the fictionalized story of
her father's family in Europe during the 20th century, including both world
wars, the Holocaust, subsequent immigration to China, the Kindertransport to
England, and eventual arrival in the U.S. after the Communist Revolution in
1949.
Her second book, LILY IN THE DESERT: STORIES, was published by the
Carnegie-Mellon University Press Series in Short Fiction in 2001.
Her first book, YORK FERRY: A NOVEL (Cane Hill Press, 1993), was well reviewed
in the New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times and was selected as a
Pick-of-the-Month by Library Journal. It was chosen by the international Rubery
Award for their annual fiction prize in 2016.
She lives in South-Central Colorado, where she writes and makes art in the
shadow of the Sangre de Cristo mountain range. She also edits manuscripts online
and teaches for the University College Creative Writing Masters Program at the
U. of Denver.
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