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Rosa Shand

Rosa Shand’s novel, The Gravity of Sunlight (2000), won the Jesse Jones Award for Best Fiction and the Stephen Turner Award for Best First Fiction as well as being named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She has published over thirty stories in such journals as The Southern Review, Shenandoah, Southwest Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Chelsea.

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Low Country

One place grows the men you love, another the men who are good for you. Irenie adored low-country men; she married a man who claimed the entire southern half of this country was benighted past redemption. She's divorced now, and her most-beloved Ch [...]