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Ellen Birkett Morris

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Lisa Roe on Writing Big & Lily: An Author Interview on Sisterhood, Alaska, and Starting Fiction at 62

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By Ellen Birkett Morris, Doris Booth Verified, Cindy A. Matthews
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Roe’s Big & Lily Explores the Bonds and Burdens of Sisterhood Interview by Ellen Birkett Morris AUTHORLINK: Tell me about your apprenticeship as a creative writer. Did you have a mentor who offered advice that you can share with us? ROE: I’ve been very lucky to find author friends and mentors who’ve been so generous with their time and knowledge. But the very first piece of advice came from my father who was an aspiring novelist when I was young and writing my nascent stories.
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Marriage and Other Monuments Drive Story of Personal and Political Change

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By Ellen Birkett Morris, Doris Booth Verified, Cindy A. Matthews
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Virginia Pye’s latest novel, Marriage and Other Monuments, is set in the summer of 2020,  as social justice protests and the removal of Confederate monuments shake the city of Richmond, Virginia, as the marriages of two estranged sisters fall apart. Cynthia’s divorce from husband, Bobby is precipitated by his financial misdeeds. Melissa, her sister, is so committed to activism that she becomes alienated from her Black husband. As tensions rise, the sisters turn to one another.
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“Whistler”: A Story of Love and Impermanence

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By Ellen Birkett Morris
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Ann Patchett’s novels examine the bonds and secrets of families — those connected by blood, forged through marriage, and built between strangers as they weather difficult circumstances. Her latest, Whistler, is no different. It is told with Patchett’s trademark subtlety and tenderness. Whistler tells the story of Daphne Fuller and Eddie Triplett, a daughter and her stepfather, whose love transcends both time and trauma.
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