My Neighbors, Goodlife, Mississippi Stories - Saint Lauren, Eileen
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Eileen Saint Lauren's "My Neighbors, Goodlife, Mississippi" is a collection of eleven stories written by Mary "Myra" Boone, a recurring character in Saint Lauren's work. Saint Lauren has her characters speak guiding truth with the purest of voices by way of magical realism, the supernatural, sophisticated suspense, and the sublime. Each of the stories portrays a grotesque character or a horrific and bizarre act of revenge in the name of God and twisted love. Such repulsive events and grotesque people are the tours de force found in "My Neighbors, Goodlife, Mississippi." Much of the intrigue…mehr

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Eileen Saint Lauren's "My Neighbors, Goodlife, Mississippi" is a collection of eleven stories written by Mary "Myra" Boone, a recurring character in Saint Lauren's work. Saint Lauren has her characters speak guiding truth with the purest of voices by way of magical realism, the supernatural, sophisticated suspense, and the sublime. Each of the stories portrays a grotesque character or a horrific and bizarre act of revenge in the name of God and twisted love. Such repulsive events and grotesque people are the tours de force found in "My Neighbors, Goodlife, Mississippi." Much of the intrigue concern the victims, both Black and White, of the oppressive and often inhumane social climate of the fifties and early sixties of Goodlife, Mississippi. Knowingly and unknowingly, they seek retribution to exact some kind of justice for a severe injustice perpetrated upon them. The stories in "My Neighbors, Goodlife, Mississippi" are too close to the truth of the era to be comfortable and seen through the eyes of Myra Boone, they become life-shaping events. Eileen Saint Lauren often takes the reader to a supernatural place--holy and unholy--that provokes the questions: Is this Heaven or Hell? Whatever the reader deems true will suffice because ironically "My Neighbors, Goodlife, Mississippi" is a mixture of both. Saint Lauren's themes, even, are delicately reinforced in brief but profound originality such as the statement of Ambrose Twain, a wise, guiding ethereal spirit to Myra who says, "Without love, all becomes hell-even eternity." And perhaps that is the overarching theme that unites all of her work.
Autorenporträt
Eileen Saint Lauren was born in Hattiesburg and raised in the once two red-light town, Petal, Mississippi. She is an award winning photojournalist, news, and feature writer who worked early in her career as a commentator for Nebraska Public Radio and at Smith College Museum. After graduating from Jones College in Ellisville, Mississippi, with an Associate of Arts degree majoring in Journalism, she continued her education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in English. She then continued on with her education in Creative Writing at The Washington Center, Duke University, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She divides her writing time between Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and Madison, Mississippi.Author of "Southern Light, Oxford, Mississippi" A Novel Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction Author of "Goodlife, Mississippi"-a Finalist, 14th Annual International Book Award 2023, "Goodlife, Mississippi" was sold in 10 countries.