Background
Her father, Kirk Willis, was an actor and director at the Cleveland Play House.
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Some Things That Stay
(A New York Times Notable Book, Winner of the Stephen Cran...)
A New York Times Notable Book, Winner of the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction, A Book-of-the-Month Club and Quality Paperback Book Club Selection, and Winner of the Cleveland Arts Prize in Literature Tamara Anderson was in third grade when she found out most people stay in the same house for more than a year. Until then she thought everyone picked up and moved on a regular basis, crossing the country, leaving behind people and bedrooms and belongings. Now she’s turning fifteen, and she wants to stay in Mayville, New York. At first glance, there isn’t much to stick around for. In the tarpaper house across the road there are the Murphys, the Baptist family who upset Tamara’s atheist parents by inviting her to church. In the pasture there’s Edith the cow. And up in the attic there’s the ghost of the boy who used to live here, or at least that’s what Tamara suspects. But this time Tamara is putting her foot down, and planting it… Taking us into the heart and mind of an unforgettable young girl, and a unique corner of a rural 1950s America, Sarah Willis presents a “heartfelt first novel in which the characters are so vivid and rounded they produce a reflected happiness in the reader.” (The Miami Herald)
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The Sound of Us
(Alice Marlowe accepts her life the way it is. She's singl...)
Alice Marlowe accepts her life the way it is. She's single, in her late forties. She lives with a cat named Sampson, and has imaginary conversations with her dead twin brother. As a sign-language interpreter for the deaf, she is used to standing between people, facilitating their conversations with each other. But then a late-night phone call brings a beautiful, scared six-year-old girl into her life. And seeing herself through a child's eyes for the first time, she discovers that love is a universal language.
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A Good Distance
(Sarah Willis is one of today's most gifted novelists. Now...)
Sarah Willis is one of today's most gifted novelists. Now the award-winning author delivers a heartrending story about mothers and daughters doing their best to negotiate the distance between freedom and love. Jennifer's mother, Rose, belongs in a home. At least that's what everyone else thinks. But Jennifer has walked away from her mother too many times already, and this is one duty she intends to fulfill herself. So she takes a leave of absence from her job and invites Rose to live with her and her family. Jennifer's teenage daughter and new husband can hardly tolerate Rose and her short temper, but Jennifer is desperate to know about the memories drifting in and out of her mother's reach, sometimes comforting her, sometimes tormenting her. Jennifer longs to use these memories to help rebuild her mother's life--to remind herself, and her mother, what went wrong, so she can ask for forgiveness--or is it the other way around?
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Sarah Willis
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She lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, United States of America. Theater and the arts have informed much of Willis’ work, especially her second novel, The Rehearsal, which is about a theater troupe preparing a performance of Of Mice and Men. Her work is often set in either Cleveland, Ohio or Chautauqua, New New York Some Things That Stay was made into a movie which opened in Canada in October, 2004.
She has published personal essays in The Plain Dealer in their Sunday magazine.
She has taught creative writing workshops at John Carroll University and Hiram College and at the Maui Writer"s Conference. Sarah Willis founded and runs the Cleveland East Side Writers.
Achievements
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Her first novel, Some Things That Stay was listed as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, won the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction 2000, and was awarded The Cleveland Arts Prize in Literature 2000. She has published short fiction in Book Magazine, Confrontation, Crescent Review, (nominated for a Pushcart Prize), Vincent Brothers Review, Rockford Review, Whiskey Island Review, Riverwind, Number Roses Review, Artful Dodge, The Missouri Review, and the anthology, Our Mothers Our Selves.
Works
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Some Things That Stay
(A New York Times Notable Book, Winner of the Stephen Cran...)
- BY Willis, Sarah ( Author ) { Some Things That Stay - By Willis, Sarah ( Author ) May - 01- 2001 ( Paperback ) }
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A Good Distance
(Sarah Willis is one of today's most gifted novelists. Now...)
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The Sound of Us
(Alice Marlowe accepts her life the way it is. She's singl...)
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Some Things That Stay
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Nationality
United States
Awards
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Pushcart Prize; Cleveland Arts Prize
The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.