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Rain Village by Carolyn Turgeon

Rain Village

by Carolyn Turgeon
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  • Oct 10, 2006, 320 pages
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Carolyn Turgeon was born in Michigan grew up in Illinois, Texas, Michigan and Pennsylvania.  She studied English and Italian literature at Penn State and received a Master's in Comparative Literature from UCLA. Rain Village is her first novel. She works for a non-profit in New York and lives in Queens.

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