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"Susie Duncan Sexton has lived her entire life in a small town, indeed, in the same house where she grew up. As an adult, she taught at the same grammar school that she attended as a child, and many of the relationships she cultivated while growing up, including her marriage, have endured over the years. Always one to document the present and offer her sometimes unorthodox ideas and opinions, Susie Duncan Sexton has tickled the keys of her trusty...
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"In a hilariously charming domestic memoir, America's celebrated master of terror turns to a different kind of fright: raising children. In her celebrated fiction, Shirley Jackson explored the darkness lurking beneath the surface of small-town America. But in Life Among the Savages, she takes on the lighter side of small-town life. In this witty and warm memoir of her family's life in rural Vermont, she delightfully exposes a domestic side in cheerful...
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2012.
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"In Susie Duncan Sexton's follow-up to Secrets of an Old Typewriter, she offers her second essay collection of provocative, funny, and heartwarming/heartbreaking observatons. Entitled Missunderstood Gargoyles & Overrated Angels, this volume celebrates the underdogs and the unappreciated among us...and sets its sights on the hypocritcal and the hyped among us as well. Through the context of a life fully lived--with an affinity for pop culture, an aversion...
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[2015]
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"'Making the Rounds' is the second book my father and I have written together. Our first collaboration, 'A Hundred Camels: A Mission doctor's Sojourn and Murder Trial in Somalia,' fulfilled a promise I penned in my eighth-grade journal--that one day I would write a book about my father's murder trial, a frightening event and no less absurd to me than the court scene from 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.'. . . A year after 'A Hundred Camels' was...
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