Jul 26, Stony River by Tricia Dower: Enter today for a chance to win

I enjoyed the selection this week so much that I reviewed it myself for BookClubBuddy.com.

Exquisitely written, honest, and entertaining, everything in this disquieting story works toward a successful narrative. Equally evocative and insightful, intriguing thematically and symbolically, Stony River is an intensely satisfying read, like reading Margaret Laurence.

Tricia Dower grew up in a New Jersey town much like Stony River, in an age when secrets crouched behind closed doors and it wasn’t “polite” to interfere in another family’s business. Children were left to decipher the meaning of adult whisperings and come to frightening conclusions. Her recollections of that repressive time informed the novel Stony River.

TRICIA DOWER was a business executive before reinventing herself as a writer in 2002. Stony River is her debut novel. Her short-story collection, Silent Girl (Inanna, 2008), was long-listed for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature.

She won first prize for fiction in The Malahat Review’s 2010 Open Season Awards. Her short fiction has also appeared in The New Quarterly, Room of One’s Own, Hemispheres, Cicada, NEO and Big Muddy. A dual citizen of Canada and the United States, Dower lives and writes in Brentwood Bay, BC.

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