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The Feasting Season
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photo of Melanie Sumner Melanie Sumner
Melanie Sumner is the author of one previous book, Polite Society, a collection of stories. She won a Whiting Award in 1995 and was a regional winner in Granta's Best Young American Novelists competition. Her stories have appeared in many magazines including The New Yorker and DoubleTake and have been anthologized in New Stories from the South and Best of the South. . . . .more