Heather Newton’s “McMullen Circle” Brings Characters in a Small Town to Life

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English - January 19, 2022 05:15 - 35 minutes - 32.1 MB
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Heather Newton’s “McMullen Circle” Brings Characters in a Small Town to Life

In this episode 278, we visit with Heather Newton, author of “McMullen Circle,” a collection of connected short stories, and finalist for the W.S. Porter Prize.

In 1969, as Karl Wallenda prepares to tight-rope walk across the gorge in the tiny town of Tonola Falls, Georgia, faculty families at the McMullen Boarding School learn about racism, war, and what makes a hero.

Wiley Cash, New York Times bestselling author of A Land More Kind Than Home, had this to say about the book:"These deeply literary, heartfelt, and heartbreaking characters call to mind the work of Elizabeth Strout, Gail Godwin, and Richard Russo, but Heather Newton is her own writer. Her characters are shot through with longing and hope, and in this small community we watch as big dreams and big desires are dreamed and felt, run toward and away from. This is the kind of book that readers return to to reemerge themselves in Newton's world, and it's also the kind of book that writers return to to see how she pulled it off."

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