A Hawk in the Woods - Laben, Carrie
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"When newscaster Abby Waite is diagnosed with a potentially terminal illness, she decides to do the logical thing ... break her twin sister Martha out of prison and hit the road. Their destination is the Waite family cabin in Minnesota where Abby plans a family reunion of sorts. But when you come from a family where your grandmother frequently took control of your body during your youth, where your mother tried to inhabit your mind and suck your youthful energies out of you, and where so many dark secrets--and bodies, even--are buried, such a family meeting promises to be nothing short of complicated"--Back cover.…mehr

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"When newscaster Abby Waite is diagnosed with a potentially terminal illness, she decides to do the logical thing ... break her twin sister Martha out of prison and hit the road. Their destination is the Waite family cabin in Minnesota where Abby plans a family reunion of sorts. But when you come from a family where your grandmother frequently took control of your body during your youth, where your mother tried to inhabit your mind and suck your youthful energies out of you, and where so many dark secrets--and bodies, even--are buried, such a family meeting promises to be nothing short of complicated"--Back cover.
Autorenporträt
Carrie Laben grew up in western New York. They earned their BS at Cornell and later their MFA at the University of Montana. They now live in Queens, where they spend a lot of time staring at birds.Their work has appeared in such venues as Birding, Clarkesworld, The Dark, Indiana Review, Okey-Panky, and Outlook Springs. In 2017 they won the Shirley Jackson Award in Short Fiction for their story "Postcards from Natalie" and Duke University's Documentary Essay Prize for the essay "The Wrong Place". In 2015 they were selected for the Anne LaBastille Memorial Writer's Residency, in 2018 they were a MacDowell Fellow, and in 2019 they were a resident at Brush Creek.This is their first novel. They are currently at work on a book of essays about urban environmentalism.