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Newspaper Article
'Million' author calls writers eavesdroppers
2006
Overview
\"When you read all the time, language comes naturally to you,\" Susan Straight said by phone from her Riverside, Calif., home. Her most recent novel, \"A Million Nightingales,\" traces the amazing life of a young slave girl growing up in Louisiana in the early 1800s. When Straight read Louisiana's first slave code, written in 1724, she was stunned at the first sentence: \"All Jews will be expelled from the colony.\" This, even though the rest of the document was about slavery. \"It is a bloodless document,\" Straight said. \"It's so strange to read this kind of thing about human beings.\" Straight plans two more volumes about Moinette's descendants, making the book into a trilogy. But she will never give up her pleasure-reading. She loves the mystery genre, especially Walter Mosley and James Lee Burke, and there's a book she re-reads at least once a year, \"Ceremony,\" by Leslie Marmon Silko, a Native American writer from New Mexico.
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Deseret Digital Media
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