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Land of enchantment

Wieland, Liza. (Author).

Summary: "New Mexico, 1985. Brigid Long Night, a young half-Navajo painter, goes to work as an assistant for the elderly Georgia O'Keeffe. Haunted by the decision to give up her newborn daughter for adoption, Brigid struggles with the direction and inertia of her life ... Atlanta, 1996. Nancy Diamond, an aspiring playwright, encounters Brigid's work and begins to understand the hidden truths about her own life as the child born of an affair between her white mother and an African American artist. New York City, 2001. Sasha Hernandez enrolls at Columbia University to study filmmaking. She has only recently discovered that her mother, living in Manhattan, is a celebrated painter and sculptor whose work is installed in the sculpture garden at the World Trade Center"--Dustjacket.

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  • ISBN: 0815610467
  • ISBN: 9780815610465
  • ISBN: 0815653131
  • ISBN: 9780815653134
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (pages
    remote
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2015.

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Formatted Contents Note: Land of Enchantment; Acknowledgments; Land of Enchantment; Brigid Long Night; Sasha Hernandez; Nancy Diamond; Brigid; Nancy; Sasha; Brigid; Nancy; Sasha; Brigid; Nancy; Sasha; Brigid; Nancy; Sasha; Brigid; Nancy; Sasha; Brigid; Nancy; Sasha; Brigid; Nancy; Sasha; Brigid; Nancy; Sasha; Nancy; Sasha; Strange and Forbidden Love; Sasha; Brigid; Sasha; Centaur and Mermaid.
Source of Description Note:
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Subject: Women artists -- Fiction
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General
FICTION -- Contemporary Women
Women artists
Genre: Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Fiction.
Electronic books.

Liza Wieland is an American novelist, short story writer, and poet who has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, and the North Carolina Arts Council. She is the 2017 winner of the Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. She is the author of several books including A Watch of Nightingales, winner of the 2008 Michigan Literary Fiction Award and Paris, 7 A.M. Liza Wieland is the author of three novels, three collections of short fiction, and a volume of poems. Her work has been awarded two Pushcart Prizes, a National Endowment of the Arts grant, and the Michigan Literary Fiction Award. She teaches at East Carolina University and lives near Oriental, NC, with her husband and daughter.

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