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Details Writer: Ashley Warlick; Genre: Fiction; Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

You'd hate the author, Ashley Warlick, for being the youngest-ever recipient of the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship if The Distance from the Heart of Things weren't so good. Returning to her Southern family's vineyard after college, forced to confront her relationships with her oddball clan, Mavis Black emerges as a refreshing Gen-X anomaly: a young woman who trusts her own judgment. A-

Originally posted May 09, 1997 Published in issue #378 May 09, 1997 Order article reprints
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