Author: Rita Dove

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• Ayana Mathis (1)
  • IN: The Twelve Tribes of Hattie (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The house, shut up like a pocket watch, those tight hearts breathing inside -- she could never invent them.
    FROM: Obedience, (1984), Poem, US
• Michelle Gagnon (1)
  • IN: Don’t Turn Around (2012) Fiction, Young Adult, American
    EPIGRAPH: One narcissus among the ordinary beautiful flowers, one unlike all the others! She pulled, stooped to pull harder— when, sprung out of the earth on his glittering terrible carriage, he claimed his due. It is finished. No one heard her. No one! She had strayed from the herd.(Remember: go straight to school. This is important, stop fooling around! Don’t answer to strangers. Stick with your playmates. Keep your eyes down.) This is how easily the pit opens. This is how one foot sinks into the ground.
    FROM: Persephone, (1996), Poem, US