title: Stealing: Life In America: A Collection of Essays
author: Michelle Cacho-Negrete
description: Michelle Cacho-Negrete is an award-winning author who currently lives in Portland Maine with her husband Kevin Smith, a prominent scientist, editor and author.She was born in Brooklyn and many of her essays are about her childhood.Michelle's original degree was in clinical social work and she worked for many years with victims of domestic violence, helped establish a woman's shelter in New York, and co-facilitated a batterer education program for violent men on probation. Four of Michelle essays have been among the 100 most notable of the year and one essay won Best of Net.She is in five anthologies, including a Norton College anthology. UTNE called her essay about George Bush and the environment excellent writing.She is nonfiction co-editor for Solstice Literary Magazine. Stealing: Life in America is her first book.
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  # Greed
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  C. M. Sutter
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2018
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  AUTHOR’S NOTE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This book is a work of fiction by C. M. Sutter. Names, characters, places, and
  incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used solely for
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  entirely coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
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  ### ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  
  
  C. M. Sutter is a crime fiction writer who resides in Florida, although she is
  originally from California.
  
  
  She is a member of numerous writers’ organizations, including Fiction for All,
  Fiction Fact