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A luminous new novel about the forces that tear families apart and the ties that bind them together. Powerful and moving, “Take One Candle Light A Room” brightens the intricacies of human connection and the ways in which we find a place for ourselves within our families and the world.
Susan Straight, professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, has won the Gold Medal for Fiction from the San Francisco-based Commonwealth Club for her fifth novel, “Highwire Moon.” All her novels are set in the fictitious town of Rio Seco, a loose parallel to her hometown of Riverside, where she still lives.