About the Author:
Hilary Holladay was born in Richmond, Virginia, and grew up in Virginia and Pennsylvania. She graduated from the University of Virginia and later earned an MA from the College of William and Mary and a PhD in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her book publications include American Hipster: A Life of Herbert Huncke, The Times Square Hustler Who Inspired the Beat Movement and Wild Blessings: The Poetry of Lucille Clifton. She is also the author of a poetry collection, The Dreams of Mary Rowlandson. An avid tennis player, she teaches American literature at James Madison University and lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Review:
Hilary Holladay's debut novel is an eloquent achievement. Set in rural Oklahoma and Virginia in the late 1930s and continuing into the war years, with much of its action swirling around Alice Williams, the complex heroine of the story, Tipton presents a sepia-toned world of characters whose lives, while initially apart from, are drawn increasingly into the cataclysms of the larger, darker world. Friendship, the search for identity, coming of age, class, the effects of war, and the power of love--all familiar themes--are rendered new by Holladay's imagining, and Tipton leaves us with its own hard-won truths. -- David Daniel, author of
Hilary Holladay has written a big story, alive with the twists and turns of real life in its unpredictability, pain, and delight. -- William McCranor Henderson, author of
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