Thursday, September 25, 2014

Book Beginning: Carry the Sky by Kate Gray



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One foot in the single shell like a blue heron lifting off water, I pushed off from the dock and lowered myself into the seat. In twenty strokes I cleared the cove.

Carry the Sky by Kate Gray, published by Forest Avenue Press.

Kate Gray is a poet and teacher, the author of three poetry collections. Carry the Sky is her beautiful, sad, funny first novel, set in a boarding school in the 1980s, which has gained praise from readers and fellow writers.

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