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Big Questions Drive New Novel:

Tamara Linse’s great grandfather Frank Wood was a horse thief.

“He had a rough life,” Linse says. “It was just him and his mom moving across the country in the 1860s and 70s.” Family stories say that he worked for an uncle for a year, but the uncle refused to pay him, and so he stole two horses. In the official deposition for the incident, Deputy Sheriff John Carstensen testified that Frank “claimed it was poverty that drove him to it.”

For that, Frank served two and a half years in Iowa’s Anamosa Additional Penitentiary and was released early for good behavior. He and Ellen Noble married shortly after, changed their last name to Strong, moved to Kansas City, and opened a grocery.

The life of Frank and Ellen forms the basis for Linse’s new historical novel Earth’s Imagined Corners.

Book Information:

Earth’s Imagined Corners

The Round Earth Series, Book 1

Tamara Linse

Genre: Historical Fiction

Publisher: Willow Words

Date of Publication: January 31, 2015

ISBN: 978-0-9909533-1-9

ASIN: B00T18RRNK

Number of pages: 472

Word Count: 130,000

In 1885 Iowa, Sara Moore is a dutiful daughter, but when her father tries to force her to marry his younger partner, she must choose between the partner—a man who treats her like property—and James Youngblood—a kind man she hardly knows who has a troubled past.

When she confronts her father, he beats her and turns her out of the house, breaking all ties, so she decides to elope with James to Kansas City with hardly a penny to their names.

In the tradition of Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! and Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, Earth’s Imagined Corners is a novel that comprehends the great kindnesses and violences we do to each other.

Earth’s Imagined Corners is based on the lives of the author’s great grandparents, Frank and Ellen Strong, and it is Book 1 in the Round Earth Series.

About the Author:

Tamara Linse jokes that she was raised in the 1880s, and so it was natural for her to set a book there. She is the author of the short story collection How to Be a Man and the novel Deep Down Things and earned her master’s in English from the University of Wyoming, where she taught writing. Her work appears in the Georgetown Review, South Dakota Review, and Talking River, among others, and she was a finalist for an Arts & Letters and Glimmer Train contests, as well as the Black Lawrence Press Hudson Prize for a book of short stories. She works as an editor for a foundation and a freelancer.

Find her online at www.tamaralinse.com and her blog Writer,

Cogitator, Recovering Ranch Girl at www.tamara-linse.blogspot.com

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