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Melanie Rae Thon is the author of two novels, Iona Moon and Meteors in August, as well as two story collections, Girls in the Grass and First, Body. Her short stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories and such well-regarded publications as the Paris Review, Story, and Granta, which named her one of its "Best Young American Novelists." She won a Whiting Award in 1997. Originally from Montana, Thon has taught at Ohio State University, Syracuse University, and Emerson College. She currently lives in Salt Lake City, and teaches at the University of Utah.
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by Melanie Rae Thon In her new novel, Sweet Hearts, award-winning novelist Melanie Rae Thon tells the story of Flint and Cecile, the brother and sister who inherited the mixed blood of white settlers and Native Americans that first flowed in their great-grandmother's veins. In the children's world, on the outer fringes of the Metis culture in Montana, people are cut loose from their land, their history, their culture, and their families. Yet Melanie Rae Thon's gritty and graceful Sweet Hearts is a love story. It is a story of the pull (and pain) of family. It is a story of the love of a people for their mythic past. |
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