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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Emerging Writers Series - Ann Weisgarber:  book sig
 ning and discussion\nEvent Url: http://www.artshound.com/event/detail/4408
 27903/Emerging_Writers_Series_Ann_Weisgarber_book_signing_and_discussion\n
 Event Date Begin: 2010-09-08\nEvent Date End: 2010-09-08\n\nPrepare yourse
 lf for another great author from our Emerging Writers Series. On Wednesday
 \, September 8\, Brazos Bookstore welcomes Texas author\, Ann Weisgarber. 
 From 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM she will read from and sign her debut novel\, The 
 Personal History of Rachel DuPree.\nNamed Best Work of First Fiction by th
 e Texas Institute of Letters\, long-listed for the Orange Prize (alongside
  Toni Morrison and Marilynne Robinson)\, and short-listed for the Orange P
 rize for New Writers\, The Personal History of Rachel DuPree is an extraor
 dinary debut novel by an American writer\, Ann Weisgarber. Recalling The C
 olor Purple and Little House on the Prairie\, Weisgarber presents a portra
 it of a woman who rises above the circumstances keeping her down\, while o
 pening a window into the little-known history of African American settlers
  in the West.\nIt is 1917 in the South Dakota Badlands\, and summer has be
 en hard. Fourteen years have passed since Rachel and Isaac DuPree left Chi
 cago to redeem the promise of the Homestead Act by staking a claim in this
  unforgiving land. But it hasn't rained in months&mdash\;the cattle are be
 llowing with thirst and supplies are dwindling. Pregnant\, and struggling 
 to feed her family\, Rachel is determined to give her children the life th
 ey deserve\, even though she knows that her husband will never leave his r
 anch. For Isaac\, one of the few black ranchers in the Badlands\, land mea
 ns a measure of equality\, and he refuses to surrender his claim even thou
 gh times are hard. Rachel must find her own strength to stake another\, al
 together different claim&mdash\;for herself\, and for her children.\nThe P
 ersonal History of Rachel DuPree is an unforgettable novel about love and 
 loyalty\, homeland and belonging. Above all\, it is the story of one woman
 's courage in the face of the most punishing adversity.\nAbout the author:
  Ann Weisgarber was born and raised in Kettering\, Ohio. She was a social 
 worker before earning a master's degree in sociology at the University of 
 Houston and becoming a teacher. She divides her time between Sugar Land an
 d Galveston\, Texas.\n\nStart time: 7:00pm
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SUMMARY:Emerging Writers Series - Ann Weisgarber:  book signing and discuss
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