“With Mourner’s Bench, Sanderia Faye announces herself as a bold, at times intoxicating, original voice in American fiction. This is a stunning début.”
Dennis Lehane, author of Gone Baby Gone, Mystic River, & Shutter Island
“Reading [this] story, no matter what you believe history might have taught us since, you feel as if the questions of racial justice are not only unresolved but barely yet asked.”
Kevin Brockmeier, author of The Brief History of the Dead
—Vivienne Schiffer, Camp Nine: A Novel
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EXCERPT: /ONE/ JOURNAL
/One/ is a wheneverly online journal of literature, art and ideas that celebrates the human in us all. In every issue, /One/ features an item in each of its departments—an essay, a poem, a short story, a photograph or photo essay, and an interview. The editors will...
SHORT STORY: THE COLLAGIST
The Collagist is a monthly online journal that contains short fiction, poetry, essays, book reviews, and one or more excerpts from novels forthcoming from (mostly) independent presses. By publishing online, The Collagist seeks to provide access to powerful,...
REVIEW: UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS PRESS – BOOKLIST
…the book succeeds at dramatizing an essential era in American history and is a welcome addition to civil rights literature.
REVIEW: ELLEN MEEROPOL
…the thing I remember most was Sanderia’s chapter from this novel. Her young protagonist Sarah is so beautifully brought to life; we feel the Arkansas summer heat, the struggles within her family, her religious yearnings. As the civil rights movement and school integration come to her town, Sarah guides us through an emotional landscape of change and growth. This debut novel is assured and confidant and the window it offers into our shared history is unique.
INTERVIEW: UNIVERISTY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS NEWS CENTER
A PhD candidate in the aesthetic studies program in the School of Arts and Humanities, Faye recently finished her debut novel, Mourner’s Bench, about a young girl navigating life in small-town Arkansas during the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The novel was published by the University of Arkansas Press.
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