McMullen Circle: from the author of the award-winning Under the Mercy Trees comes a masterful set of connected short stories making up a novel.
The twelve linked stories in McMullen Circle explore the intertwined lives of faculty families at the McMullen Boarding School in Georgia in 1969–70. The school community is isolated and idyllic, yet issues of race and the Vietnam War still intrude.
"Heather Newton is a beautiful writer and McMullen Circle is a beautiful book, written with compassion, humor and unflinching honesty. I love these stories, and as standalone pieces, each is compelling in its own way, often breathtakingly so. And read as a whole, the stories transcend the individual characters, offering a complex, conflicted and empathetic portrait of this North Georgia boarding school and its community. The whole time I was reading McMullen Circle, I was reminded again and again of Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio." —Tommy Hays, author of The Pleasure Was Mine
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Heather Newton’s novel Under The Mercy Trees (HarperCollins 2011) won the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award, was chosen by the Women’s National Book Association as a Great Group Reads Selection, and named an “Okra Pick” by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance. Her short prose has appeared in Enchanted Conversation Magazine, The Drum, Dirty Spoon, and elsewhere. A practicing attorney, she teaches creative writing for UNC-Asheville’s Great Smokies Writing Program and is co-founder and Program Manager for the Flatiron Writers Room writers’ center in Asheville, NC. www.heathernewton.net
