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When Frances accepts an invitation to visit Stiltsville, a community ofhouses built on pilings in Biscayne Bay, she has no idea that her simple"yes" to a new friend will determine the course of her life for the next twodozen years. Set in Miami from the late '60s to the 1990s,Stiltsvilleis asweeping journey seen through the eyes of one woman as she experienceslove, motherhood, friendship, hurricanes, racial tension, and finally, atragic death in slow motion.In her debut novel, Daniel describes the experiences of three generationsin one family whose spiritual heart is centered in a modest bungalowbuilt a few feet above the water.When Frances meets and marries Dennis,she learns to live her life on the water, from bay to ocean to everglade tobayou. She navigates through it all infidelity, empty-nest syndrome, anddebilitating illness sometimes with grace and humor, sometimes withanger and bitterness, but always with the same people by her side.Daniel excels in capturing the flavor and decadence of Miami as itbecame a multicultural hotbed. In Stiltsville, she has woven factual eventsinto Frances's life from a tumultuous period that witnessed racial beatings,the cocaine wars, and Hurricane Andrew. The result is a riveting novelfilled with pathos."Deeply engrossing..." Curtis Sittenfeld, author ofAmerican Wife

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Author Susanna Daniel was born and raised in Miami, Florida, where she spent much of her childhood at her family’s stilt house in Biscayne Bay.Her debut novel, Stiltsville, was awarded the PEN/Bingham prize for best debut work published in 2010. Stiltsville was also named a 2011 Summer Reading List pick by Oprah.com, a Best Debut of 2010 by Amazon.com, a Best Book of 2010 by the Huffington Post, and a Discover Great New Writers pick by Barnes & Noble.Susanna is a co-founder, with author Michelle Wildgen, of the Madison Writers’ Studio, an intimate, university-level writing workshop (www dot madisonwriters dot com), which will begin enrolling new students in June of 2013. She is a graduate of Columbia University and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and was a Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. Her writing has been published in Newsweek, Slate, One Story, Epoch, and elsewhere.Susanna lives with her husband and two young sons in Madison, Wisconsin, where during the long winter she dreams of the sun and the sea, and of jumping off the stilt house porch at high tide.Susanna’s second novel, Sea Creatures, about a woman who ultimately must face the unthinkable choice between her husband and young son, is forthcoming from HarperCollins in the summer of 2013.

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