4 Books by Valerie Miner
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Overview: Valerie Miner is the award-winning author of fourteen books. Her new novel, Traveling with Spirits, will be published in September, 2013. Other novels include After Eden, Range of Light, A Walking Fire, Winter’s Edge, Blood Sisters, All Good Women, Movement: A Novel in Stories, and Murder in the English Department. Her short fiction books include Abundant Light, The Night Singers and Trespassing. Her collection of essays is Rumors from the Cauldron: Selected Essays, Reviews and Reportage. In 2002, The Low Road: A Scottish Family Memoir was a Finalist for the PEN USA Creative Non-Fiction Award. Abundant Light was a 2005 Fiction Finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards.
Genre: General Fiction
Murder in the English Department
A gripping novel of politics, academia, and murderAssistant professor Nan Weaver, an outspoken feminist, is working toward tenure at Berkeley. Nan s blue-collar family left her with a legacy of endurance and hard work, and she is dedicated to her ideals and her students.But Nan s bold campaign against on-campus sexual harassment may be putting her career prospects in jeopardy. When an infamously chauvinistic male English professor turns up dead in his office, everyone suspects activist Nan. But she is innocent. And she knows who the murderer is.A fast-paced, nontraditional mystery that places a strong woman in a battle for her innocence and principles, "Murder in the English Department"is a must-read for academics and mystery lovers alike."
Movement
This novel in stories tracks ten years in the life of Susan, a journalist and feminist, during a time of transition in America
Susan is an activist. And yet, though her political ideals form the center of her life, she questions her convictions. At the heart of this string of interconnected stories are tensions among ideas, feelings, and action. Miner deftly interweaves Susan’s story with the tales of women whom Susan will never meet. The result is a textured and enveloping book that creates a sense of universality.
Written with a deep understanding of activism, Miner’s novelistic retrospective of the feminist movement questions everything from marriage to Marxism. This fascinating work gives a true and unflinching view of what it means to be a woman in the world.
All Good Women
As World War II rages abroad, a group of women forge the bonds of sisterhood in America
In 1938, while tensions in Europe are reaching a boiling point, four young women with big ambitions enter secretarial school in San Francisco. Motivated to attain the financial stability that eluded their parents, they go to battle for their futures. Moira, of Scottish descent, dreams of being an actress. Ann yearns for the education her Jewish immigrant parents provided for her brother, but not for her. Japanese American Wanda experiences firsthand the racial injustices running rampant in the United States. And Teddy, who left the Dust Bowl for sunny California, comes to startling realizations about herself as the war progresses. These women will be both buoyed and challenged by their dreams, experiencing love, loss, and everything in between. Against the backdrop of a nation gripped by fear and paranoia, Miner eloquently captures the spirit of wartime on the home front.
Range of Light
Two old friends who have not seen each other for decades spend a week hiking through the stunning scenery of California s High SierraTwenty-five years ago, a group of five high schoolers trekked through the High Sierra. Now, two of them lesbian Kath and straight Adele come back to repeat their journey and renew their friendship. In chapters that alternate between the women s voices, they reveal their pasts, their thoughts, and their reactions both to the scenery and to each other. For Kath, the sublime topography of the Sierra is inspiring and invigorating. Adele is more trepidatious. Over the course of their journey up to High Country, old stories, tensions, dreams, and disappointments come to the surface.A unique study of the complexity of the bonds between women, this transporting book, written with elegance and restraint, is among Miner s finest work."
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