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Karen A. Wyle was born a Connecticut Yankee, but eventually settled in Bloomington, Indiana, home of Indiana University. She now considers herself a Hoosier. Wyle's childhood ambition was to be the youngest ever published novelist. While writing her first novel at age 10, she was mortified to learn that some British upstart had beaten her to the goal at age 9.

Wyle is an appellate attorney, photographer, political junkie, and mother of two daughters. Her voice is the product of almost five decades of reading both literary and genre fiction. It is no doubt also influenced, although she hopes not fatally tainted, by her years of law practice. Her personal history has led her to focus on often-intertwined themes of family, communication, the i...more


Yes, Dick Lugar was old. Yes, he'd lost touch with Indiana. Yes, he's anything but a small-government Tea Party type. But let's not forget one other factor contributing to his resounding defeat in the Republican senatorial primary: the way he and his allies conducted the campaign.

I moved to Indiana in 1989, and for all the years since, until a couple of months ago, Lugar had a rare reputation...

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Average rating: 3.83 · 46 ratings · 32 reviews · 2 distinct works
Twin-Bred
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3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011
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I changed my mind about this book twice.

I found the first half intriguing, unsettling, and absorbing. I had several inconsistent predictions of how things might develop.

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“I remember that story. You have read it four times." Samson shrugged. "Why should I stop with the first reading? Nobody says, 'That was a fine piece of music. I'll never listen to that again." But some people treat books that way. Not I!”
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