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Alyson Hagy, a novelist and short story writer, was raised on a farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and now lives and teaches in Laramie, Wyoming.

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	Boleto 3.61 avg rating — 378 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Ghosts of Wyoming 3.44 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Keeneland 3.44 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Snow, Ashes 3.62 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Graveyard of the Atlantic 4.40 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hardware River Stories 4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1991	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Madonna on Her Back: A Novel 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Ploughshares Fall 1996 Guest-Edited by Richard Ford by Ploughshares (Goodreads Author), Ann Beattie , Bo Caldwell it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1996 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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It's time to vote for the first Graywolf Press Book Club selection of 2011! You have until Thursday, December 16th to vote on our January 2011 read, and the winner will be announced on December 17th. All new books in all genres from 2010 are included. Happy voting!

Your Presence Is Requested at Suvanto: A Novel by Maile Chapman

5 votes 29.4%

The Report by Jessica Francis Kane

3 votes 17.6%

I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson

3 votes 17.6%

Ghosts of Wyoming by Alyson Hagy

2 votes 11.8%

Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty: Poems by Tony Hoagland

2 votes 11.8%

Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir by Ander Monson

1 vote 5.9%

The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction by Dean Young

1 vote 5.9%

We Don't Know We Don't Know: Poems by Nick Lantz

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I Just Lately Started Buying Wings by Kim Dana Kupperman

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The Stranger Manual: Poems by Catie Rosemurgy

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The Art of Description: World into Word by Mark Doty

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Out of Sight: New and Selected Poems by Eamon Grennan

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Obabakoak by Bernardo Atxaga

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The Wilding by Benjamin Percy

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Essays from the Nick of Time: Reflections and Refutations by Mark Slouka

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Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010 by Elizabeth Alexander

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Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems by Thomas Sayers Ellis

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Missing You, Metropolis: Poems by Gary Jackson

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