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Michelle Hoover teaches writing at Boston University and Grub Street and has published fiction in Confrontation, The Massachusetts Review, Prairie Schooner, and Best New American Voices, among others. She has been a Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference scholar, the Philip Roth Writer-in-Residence at Bucknell University, a MacDowell Fellow, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and in 2005 the winner of the PEN/New England Discovery Award for Fiction. She was born in Ames, IA, the granddaughter of four longtime farming families.


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The Quickening
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“The way to goodness," Borden had said, "is one of sacrifice. He who sacrifices will have it a hundred times returned.”
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message 5: by Ira

Ira thanks for the add michelle!


message 4: by J.

J. Thanks, Michelle, for adding January's Paradigm to your reading list!

Have a great weekend,

J.


Regulo Jr. Hi Michelle,
Thank you for the friend add on! I look forward to reading you book. I Thank you for your help and wishing you a great summer 2010.


message 1: by Beth

Beth Hi Michelle,
Thanks for befriending this fellow Goodreads author!


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