In honor of this award, I am going to post pieces from my novel The Noon Siren, which I have been working on for a very long time. It's about a small town in upstate New York and the lives of seven characters brought together by a series of strange events, including the discovery of a skull in a wondrous enormous house on a hill, told from the voice of the town, my humble attempt to write in the vein of Richard Russo and Brian Doyle, because I love their work.
This is the strange and beautiful house where Stella and Lee find the skull. A photo I took a long time ago . . .
