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Stefan Merrill Block

Biography

Stefan Merrill Block

Stefan Merrill Block grew up in Texas. His first novel, THE STORY OF FORGETTING, won Best First Fiction at the Rome International Festival of Literature, the 2008 Merck Serono Literature Prize and the 2009 Fiction Award from The Writers’ League of Texas. THE STORY OF FORGETTING was also a finalist for the debut fiction awards from IndieBound, Salon du Livre and The Center for Fiction. THE STORM AT THE DOOR is his second novel. He lives in Brooklyn.

Stefan Merrill Block

Books by Stefan Merrill Block

by Stefan Merrill Block - Fiction

A shy boy named Oliver Loving attends his school’s annual dance, hoping for a glimpse of the object of his unrequited affections, Rebekkah Sterling. But as the music plays, a troubled young man sneaks in through the school’s back door. The dire choices this man makes that evening will tear the town of Bliss, Texas apart. Nearly 10 years later, Oliver still lies wordless and paralyzed at an assisted care facility. Orbiting the stillpoint of his hospital bed is a family transformed. And then there is Rebekkah, who left Texas long ago and still refuses to speak about her own part in that tragic night. When a new medical test promises a key to unlock Oliver’s trapped mind, the town’s unanswered questions resurface with new urgency.