![]() It's Reynolds' seventh novel, and her first in nine years. ![]() "Even a departmental assessment report - not a genre of writing I turn to for pleasure reading - has heart and soul when Sheri's the one writing it." "The novel's as vibrantly alive as everything Sheri writes, and I do mean everything," said John McManus, professor and director of the M.F.A. "The Tender Grave" goes far beyond the break-in to examine a hate crime, the poisons released in a dysfunctional family and the first meeting of stepsisters from different worlds. Reynolds next had to figure out: "How could somebody do such an unsympathetic thing and still be sympathetic?" In her imagination, the intruder took form as a 17-year-old girl. ![]() What would make somebody kick in an old, old lady's door and steal her pills?" ![]() The first piece that inspired Reynolds' new novel, "The Tender Grave," came from her life.Ībout a decade ago, "someone kicked in my grandmother's door" while she was at the chiropractor, said Reynolds, who is chair of the English department in Old Dominion University's College of Arts and Letters. I have to figure out: Where does it lead and where does it come from?" "I loved working on this book so much," Sheri Reynolds said of "The Tender Grave." "I reconnected with something in me that I had let go a little bit." By Philip Walzerįor Sheri Reynolds, "a novel emerges piece by piece. ![]()
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