Janet Peery: 3 books
The Exact Nature of Our Wrongs
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Winner of the Library of Virginia's Emyl Jenkins Sexton Literary Award for Fiction!
"A brilliantly moving and unforgettable novel." - Jill McCorkle, author of Life After Life
Janet Peery’s first novel, The River Beyond the World, was a National Book Award finalist in 1996....
What the Thunder Said
A Novella and Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
What the Thunder Said is the 2008 winner of the WILLA Literary Award for Contemporary Fiction.
In the Dust Bowl of 1930s Oklahoma, a family comes apart, as sisters Mackie and Etta Spoon keep secrets from their father, and from each other.
Etta, the dangerously impulsive favorite of her...
The River Beyond the World
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
A National Book Award Finalist for Fiction
Set in the Texas/Mexico border country in the years from 1944 to the present, The River Beyond the World is the story of two women on the edge of sexual, moral, political, and spiritual divides. Luisa Cantú is a girl from a Sierra Madre mountain village....