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The Perseids

Susan Straight

‘The time of the Perseids never varied. That was why Dante’s mother had taught him the stars.’

Susan Straight

Susan Straight has published eight novels, including Highwire Moon, finalist for the National Book Award in 2001, and Between Heaven and Here. Her short stories have appeared in Zoetrope, the Ontario Review, the Oxford American, the SunBlack Clock and many others. Her essays have appeared in the New York TimesReader’s DigestFamily CircleSalon, the Los Angeles TimesHarpers, the Nation and elsewhere. Her memoir In the Country of Women is forthcoming from Catapult. ‘The Perseids’ is part of a new novel, Mecca. She lives in Riverside, California, where she was born.

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