title: What Keeps Me Here: A Book of Stories
author: Rebecca Brown
description: For more than a decade Rebecca Brown has been one of the best-kept secrets in fiction writing. Her first four novels garnered praise among other writers, and last year her <b>Gifts of the Body</b> proved to a wide-readership that she was one of the finest stylists working today. Her prose is plain-spoken and effective, but carries a wallop; her newest book, <b>What Keeps Me Here,</b> a collection of stories, amazes us with its purity and emotional resonance. Whether she is writing about the relationship of a woman to her art, or the violence that haunts relationships, Brown moves and speaks through her characters like light through a window, or grace through a soul.
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  Also by Sharon Sala
  
  
  Blessings, Georgia
  
  
  Count Your Blessings (novella)
  
  
  You and Only You
  
  
  I’ll Stand By You
  
  
  Saving Jake
  
  
  A Piece of My Heart
  
  
  The Color of Love
  
  
  Come Back to Me
  
  
  Forever My Hero
  
  
  A Rainbow Above Us
  
  
  The Way Back to You
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Copyright © 2020 by Sharon Sala
  
  
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