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Looking for someone to spice up your book club, women's group, or organization? Mary Dean can bring the needed charge you might be looking for. Her collection,
What Solomon Saw and Other Stories as well as the recently published Storytellers' True Stories about Love, Volume II. This edition continues the highly successful Volume 1 with a collection of thirty wonderfully written stories that capture love in its many forms-love of romantic partners, parents, children, and friends, including a story by Mary Dean. Available on Amazon, Barnesandnoble.com, and other sellers.
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About MDC
Mary Dean Cason grew up in North Carolina, where she over-indulged on Eudora Welty, Zora Neal Hurston, Lee Smith, and later Ellen Gilchrist. She made her way to Chicago where a series of careers—flight attendant, occupational therapist, medical writer, and best of all,
mother—gave her "material aplenty" Her short story, What Solomon Saw, became a finalist in Chicago Public Radio's Stories on Stage and spurred her to enroll at the University of Chicago's Writers Studio where she won the 2008 prize for fiction. Her collection of short stories, What Solomon Saw and Other Stories is available on Amazon.com.
Mary Dean has been a featured writer/performer at several Chicago live-lit venues including This Much is True, Homewood Stories, and Story Sessions, as well as co-founding the San Miguel de Allende International Storytelling Festival.
She’s thrilled that Banished Daughters of Eve, a
novel she’s currently pitching to agents, recently took second place in the Chicago Writers Association First Chapter Contest. In her day job, Mary Dean is a medical writer specializing in communications with surgeons.
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Excerpts from What Solomon Saw and Other Stories:
Storytellers' True Stories about Love, Volume II. This edition continues the highly successful Volume 1 with a collection of thirty wonderfully written stories that capture love in its many forms-love of romantic partners, parents, children, and friends,
including a story by Mary Dean.
Reviews
"Mary Dean Cason carves intelligent, funny, compassionate stories with a pitch-perfect ear, a keen eye for detail and an abiding faith in humanity, despite its foibles."
-Gary D. Wilson, author of Sing Ronnie Blue and Getting Right
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"A true Southern voice is rare—a harmony and a cacophony of insincerity ad slander all smothered in grits and gravy and peppered with an essence of downright meanness. So, right this way, y'all. Mary Dean is in the kitchen."
-Ken Burger, author of Swallow Savannah and Sister Santee
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"Cason's stories read like eavesdropping on a well-told story between close friends. They are unblinkingly honest, rich in details and paced perfectly. Set in different places, Cason gets snobby/shabby Charleston, Ray Carver's New York, Dorothy Allison's hill country. There's a desperate couple in a vignette that could have come from Larry Brown. Throughout, is a vulnerability without weakness like the best confessional of Walker Percy."
--Amazon.com
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