Bridge of Sand Houghton Mifflin Harcourt March 2009 Dana, the widow of a Pennsylvania senator, buries her husband the morning of 9/11, only miles from the United 93 crash. After months of paralysis, she sells her house and heads south in an effort to pick up the lost strands of her youth. Finding that her grandmothers house has been replaced by a strip mall, she phones an old

acquaintance. Cassius Huston is black, separated from a harridan of a wife, and devoted to his three-year-old daughter. Much to their surprise, Cassius and Dana fall in love. But when Dana is threatened by Cassiuss family, she flees to the Gulf Coast, where she finally finds herself, and her life, in a place and culture she could never have anticipated. Set amidst the blur of 9/11, this wise, beautifully written novel of love, race, territory, and renewal explores the issues that challenge us all." Praise for Janet Burroway: Dazzlinglike John Updike, she can eke out the poisonous beauty of suburban routine. Even her most ordinary characters are capable of unusual panache and introspection Washington Post Praise for Bridge of Sand: Bridge of Sand enthralled me. I was captivated from the first page and didnt put it down. Burroway has written a love story unlike any other, set in the milieu of Floridas Panhandle and brought to stunning life in all its scrappiness, beauty, and racial divide. This book will stay with you long after youve turned the last page. Jane Alexander Excerpt Q & A Tour Interview (with David Inge of WILL-AM in Champaign, Illinois)