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Honors

  • Selected by the American Booksellers Association for the August 2010 Indie Next List Great Reads.

  • Selected by the Chicago Sun-Times as one of ten fiction books for 2010 summer reading

  • January 2010’s Book of the Month for bookgroup.info, a leading online organization in the UK for book discussion groups. It was a Recommended Book for February and March.

  • Recipient of the 2009 Steven Turner Award for Best Work of First Fiction sponsored by the Texas Institute of Letters.

  • Shortlisted for UK's Orange Award for New Writers 2009.

  • Longlisted for UK’s Orange Prize for Fiction 2009.

Click here to see pictures of the Orange Prize Awards Ceremony in London.

 

Book Signings and Readings

 

Other Events

  • Ann is a judge for the Perfectly Formed Short Story Competition sponsored by the UK's Waterstone's Books Quarterly. See it here.

  • Ann will discuss The Personal History of Rachel DuPree with the Corte Madera (California) Book Discussion Group on September 29, 2010.

  • On October 4, 2010, Ann will meet with a novel writing workshop at Wright State University in Dayton, OH, to discuss the writing process.

  • Ann will discuss The Personal History of Rachel DuPree with the Sugar Land (Texas) Book Club on October 11, 2010.

  • Ann will be the featured author at the University of Houston – Victoria Readings Series in Victoria, TX, on November 3 - 4, 2010.

 

Reviews

  • "This is a powerful story with a heroine that you will root for every step of the way. Complex characters and vivid detail make for a compelling story with no easy answers." – Andy Lillich, University of Oregon's The Duck Store

  • "I devoured this debut novel in large gulps… My image of the West, the Native Americans, the racism in its various iterations that spreads with emigration, is forever impacted by her story." – Cheryl McKeon, Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park, WA

  • "...beautifully done, rendered in spare, un-showy prose as denuded as the Dakota earth." – Alfred Hickling, The Guardian

  • "From the dramatic first chapter it's a powerful story of courage in the face of adversity. Ann Weisgarber's first novel is a gem." – Gabrielle McGrane, Irish Examiner

  • "...a stunning read, with more than a nod at Steinbeck, yet enough distance to place the writer in her own territory." – Trish Simpson-Davis, The Bookbag

  • "Vintage Americana, as chilling as Cold Mountain." – Viv Groskop, Red

  • "...Ann Weisgarber has taken a little-known area of American history and created a novel that is beautifully written, intelligent and thoroughly diverting." – Irene Haynes, bookgroup.info

  • "...this was one of those unputdownable, start one day, sleep a bit because you have to, and finish at first light the next day books and I was there, right there with Rachel DuPree." – dovegreyreader.co.uk

  • "I found it a fascinating story and quickly found empathy with Rachel." – Marilyn Sherlock, Historical Novels Review

  • "Rachel is a strong and courageous heroine who faces universal dilemmas…" – Sarah Johnson, readingthepast.blogspot.com