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SUMMARY:March CDI Book Club: Heap Earth Upon It by Chloe Michelle Howarth
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DESCRIPTION:\nThe Center for Diversity and Inclusion’s book club\, sponsored by Cross-Cultural Connections\, highlights books by a diverse array of authors. Open to students and staff\, in March\, we will be reading Heap Earth Upon It by Chloe Michelle Howarth. Please contact pendley@wustl.edu to receive a copy!  \n\n\n\n\nUnderstand and demonstrate verbal\, written\, and critical thinking abilities.  \n\n\n\n\n\nProvide context from a diverse set of sources and individuals about the author\, culture\, and themes represented.  \n\n\n\n\n\nAnalyze literature and develop dialogue and communication skills. \n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Heap Earth Upon It: A creeping story of sapphic obsession with Gothic undertones and a delicious mid-century feel\, from the author of the Polari Prize-shortlisted Sunburn.  January 1965. The orphaned O'Leary siblings - Tom\, Jack\, Anna and Peggy - arrive in the village of Ballycrea\, tight-lipped about their troubled past and desperate for a fresh start.  After being met with suspicion from most of the locals\, the family are thrilled when they're taken under the wing of their well-respected neighbours\, Bill and Betty Nevan\, who offer them work\, companionship and an opportunity to fit in.  But for one of the O'Learys\, this new friendship sparks an intense attachment that makes the dynamic dangerous for all. It's difficult to bury secrets\, but almost impossible to bury feelings...  Crackling with suspense\, Heap Earth Upon It revisits the rural Ireland of Howarth's critically acclaimed debut and delves into claustrophobic relationships and tangled identities\, leaving you wondering who to trust until the very last page. It combines the emotional intensity and slow-burn sapphic obsession of Julia Armfield's Our Wives Under the Sea and K. Patrick's Mrs S. with the unsettling gothic undertones of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca and Shirley Jackson's fiction. \n\n
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