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This Heavy Silence A Novel

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Strong, resilient, and deeply loyal, Dottie Connell farms her family’s three hundred acres in rural Ohio alone, having sacrificed love and family for land she does not own. A sudden, inexplicable event leaves the daughter of her childhood friend in her care. Pressured by her community to allow her former fiancé to raise the child, Dottie must face the past she has worked fifteen years to forget.

Spanning a decade, This Heavy Silence explores the power of the vows we make to others, and, more binding, those we make to ourselves. Evoking the hardship, spring-fed beauty, and the complexities of community in the rural Midwest, this award-winning, beautifully observed novel leads us to question our ideas about motherhood, faith, and the debts we owe.

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Format: Paperback book
Product code: PP5082
Dimensions: 5.37" x 7.93"
Length: 272 pages
Publisher:
Paraclete Press
ISBN: 9781557255082
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Written by Nicole Mazzarella

Praise

First novelist Mazzarella creates a memorable protagonist who thwarts every chance at love by demanding those around her to join in her all-consuming devotion to the land. She knows the life she has chosen, and she also knows the terrible price she will pay for it. A finalist for the Paraclete Press Fiction Award of 2004, this is highly recommended for all collections.

Library Journal Starred Review

Like the land she inhabits and the people she attends, Nicole Mazzarella offers a subtle and enduring beauty, born of intense interiority, and vision both broad and deep.

Scott Cairns, author of Philokalia: New & Selected Poems 

Author

Nicole Mazzarella grew up in Ohio and writes with sensitivity and precision about rural, Midwestern life. She teaches creative writing at Wheaton College and lives with her husband in Illinois. This is her first novel; it was originally selected by Leif Enger, author of Peace Like a River, as a finalist for the Paraclete Press Fiction Award.