Norah labiner biography samples
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Praise for Norah Labiner:
"A splendid, leisurely meditation on the meaning of fame, identity, and love."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"Labiner, narrating in several distinct and haunting voices, proves herself a metafictional adept. She succeeds in crafting an ambitious, poignant and sharp-tongued novel filled with secrets and ghosts, jealousy and love."—Publishers Weekly
Sheldon and Eloise Schell are twins, orphans, and the estranged college companions of the rich, scandalous, celebrated Roman Stone. Now Roman is dead, murdered with a pair of scissors in his living room, and Eloise and Sheldon must separately tease out the secrets—a burning house, a murdered girl—that were the one story they could never tell.
Moving between the muffled plush of wintry Chicago, the fogbound darkness of a Lake Superior island, and the even darker precincts of memory, Let the Dark Flower Blossom is a book about the pull of the closed door. It is about the small pleasure of being right, the tremendous thrill of doing wrong, and the lengths writers will go to—lie, steal, kill—to get the perfect story.
Norah Labiner is the author of three novels: Our Sometime Sister, Miniatures, and German for Travelers. She has received a Minnesota Book Award for Literary Fi
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Minnesota Book Award Winners & Finalists
Note: Winners listed first in each category in bold.
Children’s Literature:
Beneath by Cori Doerrfeld (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers/Hachette Book Group)
Can We Please Give the Police Department to the Grandmothers? by Junauda Petrus; illustrations by Kristen Uroda (Dutton Children's Books/ Penguin Random House)
Finding Family: The Duckling Raised by Loons by Laura Purdie Salas; illustrations by Alexandria Neonakis (Carolrhoda Books/Lerner Publishing Group)*
Looking For Happy by Ty Chapman; illustrations by Keenon Ferrell (Beaming Books/1517 Media)*
General Nonfiction:
Lessons on the Road to Peace by John Noltner (self-published)
The Greatest Summer in Baseball History: How the ‘73 Season Changed Us Forever by John Rosengren (Sourcebooks)
The Needle and the Lens: Pop Goes to the Movies from Rock 'n' Roll to Synthwave by Nate Patrin (University of Minnesota Press)*
Smoke on the Waterfront: The Northern Waters Smokehaus Cookbook by Ned Netzel, Nic Peloquin, Mary K. Tennis, Greg Conley & Eric Goerdt; photographs by Jacob Swanson, Flo, Stephen Pestalozzi, & Zac Bentz (University of Minnesota Press)*
Genre Fiction, sponsored by Macalester College:
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