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My Heavenly Father by Dana Crum, his literary fiction short which was originally published in
Gumbo: An Anthology of African American Writing and had a dramatic reading on National Public Radio affiliate WBEZ in Chicago.
Set in Birmingham, Alabama, written in Southern vernacular, the story is told by Andre, an eight-year-old boy who misses his absent father while in church one Sunday. Though precocious, Andre is not old enough to fully understand the world around him and the circumstances that affect his life. What he understands—and what he doesn’t—drives the story’s humor and sadness. Dana Crum can spin a tale as well as anyone, and he makes words sing and dance. Nowhere is that more apparent than in this story.
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The Curiosity Cabinet by BBC Radio playwright Catherine Czerkawska, her contemporary literary fiction novel originally out from Polygon's Birlinn imprint in 2005 and shortlisted for that year's Dundee Book Prize, according to the blurb.
When Alys revisits the beautiful Hebridean island of Garve after an absence of twenty five years, she is captivated by the embroidered casket on display in her hotel. She discovers that it belongs to Donal, her childhood playmate, and soon they resume their old friendship. Interwoven with the story of their growing love, is the darker tale of Henrietta Dalrymple, kidnapped by the formidable Manus McNeill and held on Garve against her will. With three hundred years separating them, the women are linked by the cabinet and its contents, by the tug of motherhood and by the magic of the island itself. But Garve has its secrets, past and present. Donal must learn to trust Alys enough to confide in her and, like Henrietta before her, Alys must earn the right to belong.