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University of Michigan.
(NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Five women, one passion, and t...)
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Five women, one passion, and the unbreakable bond of friendship When five young mothers—Frankie, Linda, Kath, Ally, and Brett—first meet in a neighborhood park in the late 1960s, their conversations center on marriage, raising children, and a shared love of books. Then one evening, as they gather to watch the Miss America Pageant, Linda admits that she aspires to write a novel herself, and the Wednesday Sisters Writing Society is born. The five women slowly, and often reluctantly, start filling journals, sliding pages into typewriters, and sharing their work. In the process, they explore the changing world around them: the Vietnam War, the race to the moon, and a women’s movement that challenges everything they believe about themselves. At the same time, the friends carry one another through more personal changes—ones brought about by infidelity, longing, illness, failure, and success. With one another’s support and encouragement, the Wednesday Sisters begin to embrace who they are and what they hope to become, welcoming readers to experience, along with them, the power of dreaming big.
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(FINALIST FOR THE BELLWETHER PRIZE Nelly Grace is startin...)
FINALIST FOR THE BELLWETHER PRIZE Nelly Grace is starting over. With her two young sons, Nelly has fled to the simple stone house built by her great-grandfather in the moneyed horse country of Maryland in order to escape the grief of her husband’s death—and perhaps find a way back to her first love: photography. Easing her transition into this strange, mannered world is Emma Crofton, the grand matriarch of the foxhunting community, and Emma’s son, Dac, a handsome yet distant horse trainer. As Nelly slowly makes her way back to the camera, she must come to terms with her troubled relationship with her father, a photojournalist who chose fame over family. But when she finally sees him again, Nelly’s fragile new beginning is threatened by revelations of a secret past, and the fears that kept it hidden. Look for special features inside. Join the Circle for author chats and more. RandomHouseReadersCircle.com
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University of Michigan.
Clayton"s first novel, The Language of Light, was a finalist for the 2002 Bellwether Prize for Fiction, now the Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Her novel The Wednesday Sisters became a bestseller and a popular book club choice. She has also written for the Los Angeles Times, Writer"s Digest, Runner"s World, and public radio.
Her "After the Debate" on Forbes online was praised by the Columbia Journalism Review as "he absolute best story about women's issues stemming from the second Presidential debate."
A graduate of University of Michigan Law School, Clayton also earned bachelor"s degrees in History and Psychology from the University of Michigan.
She worked as a lawyer at the Los Angeles firm of Latham & Watkins. She grew up primarily in suburban Kansas City and suburban Chicago, where she graduated from Glenbrook North High School.
She began writing in earnest after moving to a horse farm outside of Baltimore, Maryland, where her first novel is set. She now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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