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Novelist and University California, Riverside creative writing professor Susan Straight is back, with a luminous new novel in hand. Take One Candle Light a Room (Pantheon) takes readers on a back-migration route, southern California to Louisiana, in a story of family challenge and travail that
touches on issues of character and identity in powerful ways. "From National Book Award finalist Straight, a searing, ultimately redemptive novel about America's legacy of racial violence and a woman's struggle to forge her own identity ... Deeply rooted in the African-American experience, yet filled with insights that resonate for anyone seeking to make a better life without disowning the past. Straight writes about the thorny subject of race with sensitivity and nuance." - Kirkus Reviews. "A vivid portrait of a mixed-race family, proud yet haunted by the vagaries of the past, and of a woman and a boy trying to bridge two worlds." - Library Journal.
