Elizabeth Poliner is the author of Mutual Life & Casualty, a novel-in-stories, and the forthcoming collection of poems, What You Know in Your Hands. Her stories and poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Colorado Review, The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, and many other journals. A recipient of seven individual artist grants from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, she has also been awarded fiction scholarships to the Bread Loaf and Sewanee writers' conferences. She teaches creative writing at Hollins University.
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A multigenerational family saga about the long-lasting reverberations of one tragic summer by 'a wonderful talent [who] should be read widely' (Edward P. Jones). In 1948, a small stretch of the Woodmont, Connecticut shoreline, affectionately named 'Ba... SEE MORE