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Sheri Reynolds

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Sheri Reynolds is an author of contemporary Southern fiction.

Sheri Reynolds was born and raised in rural South Carolina. She graduated from Conway High School in 1985, Davidson College in 1989, and Virginia Commonwealth University in 1992.

Her published novels include Bitterroot Landing, The Rapture of Canaan (an Oprah book club selection and New York Times bestseller), A Gracious Plenty (98), Firefly Cloak (06), The Sweet In-Between (08), and The Homespun Wisdom of Myrtle T. Cribb (12) and The Tender Grave (21). Her first play, Orabelle's Wheelbarrow, won the Women Playwrights' Initiative playwriting competition for 2005.

Also Professor of English and the Ruth and Perry Morgan Chair of Southern Literature at Old Dominion University in Norfo ...more

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Average rating: 3.81 · 40,036 ratings · 1,613 reviews · 10 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Rapture of Canaan 3.83 avg rating — 34,161 ratings — published 1995 — 8 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
	A Gracious Plenty 3.98 avg rating — 2,510 ratings — published 1997 — 23 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
	Firefly Cloak 3.47 avg rating — 1,336 ratings — published 2006 — 20 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
	Bitterroot Landing 3.80 avg rating — 903 ratings — published 1994 — 5 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
	The Sweet In-Between 3.36 avg rating — 832 ratings — published 2008 — 11 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
	The Homespun Wisdom of Myrtle T. Cribb 3.91 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 2012 — 7 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
	The Tender Grave 3.96 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 2021 — 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
	Sinister Wisdom 106: The Lesbian Body by Tara Shea Burke (Editor), Julie R. Enszer (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Liz Ahl (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	カナンの果て 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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
	Crochet Knitting Bags 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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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“Energy is neither created nor destroyed. It just changes shape.”
― Sheri Reynolds

tags: cemetary, death, fiction, physics, rural-life

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“Your truth may not look like mine, but that is not what matters. What matters is this: You can look at a scar and see hurt, or you can look at a scar and see healing.”
― Sheri Reynolds, A Gracious Plenty

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“There's only so much room in one heart. You can fill it up with love or you can fill it with resentment. But every bit of resentment you hold takes space away from the love. And the resentment don't do no good noway, but look what love can do.”
― Sheri Reynolds, The Rapture of Canaan

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What shall we read in September, 2019? - Books published Post-1980

The Heaven of Mercury, by Brad Watson

20 votes 29.0%

The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma's Table, by Rick Bragg

13 votes 18.8%

Call Your Daughter Home, by Deb Spera

12 votes 17.4%

Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia, by Dennis Covington

9 votes 13.0%

A Gracious Plenty, by Sheri Reynolds

8 votes 11.6%

A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage, by Marly Youmans

7 votes 10.1%

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