Ghost Country: A Novel

by Dana Michelle Burnett

Overview

Carrying echoes of Amy Tan and Rebecca Wells, Ghost Country takes the reader into the lives of three Cherokee women and the lives of their modern day daughters. Told in a series of vignettes that alternate from the era of the Civil Rights Movement, Woodstock, and the Vietnam War, to the present day. Each story carries the reader through a world where a birthday wish can make people disappear; where a child, after being told that she is nothing, can find her way back to the forgotten Cherokee traditions; and where a woman can give her daughter a treasured bit of advice thanks to a dead rock star.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012171542
Publisher:	Dana Michelle Burnett
Publication date:	01/20/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	276
File size:	304 KB

About the Author

Dana Michelle Burnett spent most of her life writing short stories and sharing them with family and friends. She was fresh out of high school when she earned a spot as a guest columnist for her local newspaper The Tribune. In the years that followed, her work was published in numerous commercial and literary magazines including Just Labs, Mindprints: A Literary Journal, Foliate Oak, and many more. Her short story John Lennon and the Chicken Holocaust was included in The Best of Foliate Oak in 2006.

She left writing to take over the family's successful home decor business NanasAtticStore.com when her mother took early retirement. "I don't regret my decision, but I missed writing. In the back of my mind, I was always looking for a way to combine my passion for writing with my love of interior design."

The winter of 2010 saw her two passions united in her new book Home Decorating for the Real World. Following the success of the decorating book, she released Ghost Country: A Novel in 2011 based on short stories she wrote years earlier including John Lennon and the Chicken Holocaust.