In The Country of Loneliness, the narrator
imagines the boyhood and youth of her father, a silent and troubled war
veteran whose early death deprived them both of any chance for
understanding. The novel, in language that is both crisp and lyrical,
richly portrays a time, the early 1930s, and characters shaped by the
events of that time, the Great Depression and the years leading to
World War II.
Dawn
Paul's short fiction has appeared in The Sun, Junctures, 14 Hills, The
Redwood Coast Review, and several anthologies. Her first novel Still
River, was published in 2006. She was a writing resident at the Ragdale
Foundation in Illinois, Vermont Studio Center, and the Spring Creek
Project in Oregon. She teaches at the Montserrat College of Art in
Beverly, MA.
