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Shawn Badgley
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Summer Reading

One big, crippling thought that makes you wonder how long John McManus has been waiting to confide it, this naturalistic first novel from the former Michener fellow and author of the short-story collections ‘Born on a Train’ and ‘Stop Breakin Down’ takes place in late-Eighties East Tennessee at the base of a ridge in the Smokies
by Shawn Badgley
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Readings

Told in the cracks between bicoastal flashbacks and Nineties real time by Hayward Theiss, a twentysomething working in television, it’s the story of someone who can only move forward by retracing his steps and fulfilling – or conquering – his need to go back. Sam Brumbaugh will be at BookPeople on April 29.
by Shawn Badgley

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