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Susan Straight

Biography

Susan Straight

Susan Straight has published 10 novels, including MECCA, A MILLION NIGHTINGALES and HIGHWIRE MOON, and one memoir, IN THE COUNTRY OF WOMEN. She’s been a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the National Book Award, among other honors, and received the Lannan Prize, the O. Henry Award, the Edgar Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement from the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. Her fiction has been translated into ten languages. She was born in Riverside, California, where she lives with her family.

Susan Straight

Books by Susan Straight

Sacrament
by Susan Straight - Fiction, Women's Fiction

In August 2020, a group of nurses are working in the ICU at a hospital in San Bernardino at the height of a COVID surge: Larette Embers, whose husband, Grief, is an animal control officer; Cherrise Martinez, whose husband died years ago in a car crash, and whose daughter, Raquel, has been sent to a Coachella date farm to live with her great-aunt to avoid the virus; and Marisol Manalang, born in the Philippines but based in Sacramento. As the nurses struggle with the skyrocketing number of sick patients, Cherisse's daughter goes missing. Grief's friend Johnny Frias, a California Highway Patrol officer, joins the search to find her. The resulting journey leads to new love and loss, pushing all our characters to their breaking points.

The Friskative Dog
by Susan Straight
Highwire Moon
by Susan Straight