A Space Apart de Meredith Sue Willis

A Space Apart

Meredith Sue Willis

A Space Apart is so deftly and subtly written, I hardly noticed how involved I'd become until I'd read the last page and turned it, wanting more. The Scarlin family is going to be with me for a very long time. -- Anne Tyler Willis fleshes out with warmth and tenderness the complexities of family love, which not only defines commitment but deepens the need. An important new talent. -The Kirkus Reviews The narrative carries warmth and strength. The people are as real as your next door neighbors. - Houston Chronicle Willis views the Scarlin family ties and loyalties, limits and tensions, with realism, sensitivity and precision. A noteworthy first novel. - Publisher's Weekly This is the story of a broken family trying to mend itself through three generations. It is a painful but essential process, and like all such repair jobs, it is only partly successful. Before it is over we come to know John and Vera and Mary Kay, as well as Vera's daughters, Lee and Tonie-- to understand the wars they must declare and the peaces that they are able to proclaim within the state of being Scarlins. -- The Philadelphia Inquirer First novelist Willis shapes her story with exquisite care, detailing the lives of a West Virginia preacher's family: John Scarlin, minister and son of "the Preacher," a wild old born-again Baptist; John's sturdy sister Mary Katherine; his capricious wife Vera, a strong character who commands attention in one fine scene after another; and his daughter Lee and Tonie who grow up to reject and embrace the meaning of Galatia, their hometown....Finally what is revealed by a family, inextricably bound together while struggling with each other's need to find "a place apart." Narratively skilled and disciplined, this is an impressive debut. -- Library Journal

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Meredith Sue Willis grew up in West Virginia and attended Bucknell University for two years before spending a year as a Volunteer in Service to America. She then took degrees from Barnard College and Columbia University in New York City. Her fiction has been published by Charles Scribner's Sons, HarperCollins, West Virginia University Press, Mercury House, Ohio University Press and other presses. Her book of literary short stories, In the Mountains of America, was praised in the New York Times Book Review as an important lesson on the nature and function of literature itself. Her latest books include two collections of short stories, Out of the Mountains from Ohio University Press and Re-Visions from Hamilton Stone Editions; a book about writing from Montemayor Press called Ten Strategies to Write a Novel; and a young adult novel, Meli's Way, also from Montemayor. She now lives in New Jersey, a short train ride from New York City, where she is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at New York University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies. She is an occasional visiting writer-in-the-schools in New York and New Jersey, keeps a four season organic garden, and is active in local racial integration politics. To learn more about her and her books, see her web page at www.meredithsuewillis.com.