Strange as This Weather Has Been (46 page)

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ANN PANCAKE grew up in Summersville and Romney, West Virginia. She is the author of the short story collection
Given Ground,
for which she won the 2000 Katharine Bakeless Nason Fiction Prize. She holds a BA from West Virginia University, an MA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a PhD from the University of Washington. Her work has appeared in publications such as
Glimmer Train, Five Points, QuarterlyWest, Shenandoah
,
Virginia Quarterly Review,
and the
Journal of Appalachian Studies
. She is the recipient of many awards, including a Pushcart Prize, the Whiting Writers Award, the Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize, and a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writers’ Fellowship Grant. She lives in Seattle.

Copyright © 2007 by Ann Pancake

 

All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the Publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

 

This book is a work of fiction.
Nothing is in it that has not been imagined.

 

Portions of this novel have appeared in slightly different
forms in
Hunger Mountain
,
Kestrel
, and
Narrative.

 

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Pancake, Ann.
Strange as this weather has been : a novel / Ann Pancake.
p. cm.

eISBN : 978-1-582-43991-4

1. Mountain life—Fiction. 2. West Virginia—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3616.A36S77 2007
813’.6—dc22
2007011838