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Winner of the Chatauqua South Award for Fiction
Out of the shotgun houses and deep, shaded porches of a west Florida mill town comes this extraordinary novel of love and redemption as told by Gabriel Catts. On the eve of his fortieth birthday, Gabe attempts to reconcile a family shattered by his betrayal of his older brother, Michael. As Gabe contends with a host of personal demons, he recounts his lifelong love for his brother's wife, Myra, whose own demons threaten to overwhelm all three of them. Circumstance and passion push them beyond the moral boundaries of their close-knit community in this intimate view of a Southern family.
The story told in My Brother Michael is retold in Myra Sims, Janis Owens second novel, from Myras point of view
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"Of all the novels written about families, very few have been able to make the reader blood kin. My Brother Michael does this, in depth and power. To an almost worked-out tradition, Janis Owens brings an astonishing renewal."
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MY BROTHER MICHAEL was inspired by a real-life tragedy.
Several years ago, much loved greataunt, who lived in a part of my hometown known as "Magnolia Hill", died. At her funeral, my mother and I drove around the corner to the house she grew up in, a typical West Florida shotgun house, two blocks from the heading mill where my grandfather worked, and she recalled a tragic childhood story of a neighborhood child -- auburn-haired and pretty -- who died in the house next door, a victim of incest and a self-induced abortion. It wasn't the first time I'd heard the story, as my grandmother had prepared the body for burial and been sworn on an oath of secrecy to never devulge the details of the child's death. This oath haunted Grannie till she died, and there, at her sister's funeral, something clicked in my head, and I decided to resurrect this child from her pauper's grave and tell her story, except this time, she would be redeemed.
Several years ago, much loved greataunt, who lived in a part of my hometown known as "Magnolia Hill", died. At her funeral, my mother and I drove around the corner to the house she grew up in, a typical West Florida shotgun house, two blocks from the heading mill where my grandfather worked, and she recalled a tragic childhood story of a neighborhood child -- auburn-haired and pretty -- who died in the house next door, a victim of incest and a self-induced abortion. It wasn't the first time I'd heard the story, as my grandmother had prepared the body for burial and been sworn on an oath of secrecy to never devulge the details of the child's death. This oath haunted Grannie till she died, and there, at her sister's funeral, something clicked in my head, and I decided to resurrect this child from her pauper's grave and tell her story, except this time, she would be redeemed.
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- Publication date1997
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