Twilight Dawn sits at the quilt frame in her living room, creating something whole from the scraps people bring of their lives. She opens The Well Ain't Dry Yet, Then steps aside to allow her customers to come forward and tell their own stories. They sneak in and out of each other's tales, bound by the quilter and a mysterious old man in a Jaguar.
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"Universal themes resonate in Anderson's accomplished stories. Original, lively, poignant, brimming with life. stories speak to us all." -- Lee Smith-Author of Fair and Tender Ladies, Saving Grace, and many others.
"[...]characters and settings are clearly Appalachian. [...]human beings suffer and celebrate in common. This is a book both readable/enlightening." -- Barbara Smith-Author Six Miles Out, The Circumstance of Death, and many others.
"[...]characters and settings are clearly Appalachian. [...]human beings suffer and celebrate in common. This is a book both readable/enlightening." -- Barbara Smith-Author Six Miles Out, The Circumstance of Death, and many others.
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Belinda Anderson holds a degree in news-editorial journalism and a master's of liberal arts studies. The former newspaper reporter established Writing & Editing Services in 1989. She conducts fiction and non-fiction workshops at Carnegie Hall in Lewisburg and is adjunct faculty at the Greenbrier Community College Center of Bluefield State College. Her own fiction has received national recognition, including awards for several of the short stories collected in The Well Ain't Dry Yet.
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Real Folks: Some Funny, Some Not,
By Carolyn Sturgeon, Editor (Charleston, WV United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Well Ain't Dry Yet (Paperback)
In The Well Ain't Dry Yet, prize-winning author Belinda Anderson shares with her audience her insider's eye about a collection of people who come from the hills of West Virginia, but who could have come from just about anyplace where the people have spunk and care about each other. Characters in The Well Ain't Dry Yet, such as quilter Twilight Dawn Johnson, who puts bits of other people's lives in perspective to patch together a lifetime of memories and hopes in each quilt for her friends and neighbors, remind us of ourselves and our neighbors at our best and funniest moments.
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Well Ain't Dry Yet, newspaper review,
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If you feel a little guilty after reading `The Well Ain't Dry Yet 'you were probably raised to believe eavesdropping is impolite. Sure, eavesdropping on the lives of fictional characters may not seem such a crime-after all, we do it all the time with books, TV, films, etc. But there's something about the characters and settings of Belinda Anderson's collection of eighteen short stories that just might fool your conscience. We know these characters as people before even turning the first page. They are our friends, our enemies, our neighbors, our relatives and sometimes even ourselves. We wouldn't be surprised to find them in line with us at the grocery store or sitting two pews down from us at church. And like any community, Anderson's characters pass through one another's lives (stories) just as easily as the people they remind us of pass through our own. For instance, if you don't currently have a cranky, troublesome neighbor like Mr. Wood from the story `Rainbow Ranch', you either have before or one day will and can take a tip on how to deal with him now. Or if you haven't yet been run off the road by a de facto member of the crazy old lady drivers club, who meet monthly in the story `Delivery', count yourself lucky and keep both eyes on the road when driving near the Princeton Cracker Barrel. And though you probably haven't driven around for years with your dead sister's ashes taking up space in your trunk, you can probably sympathize with the long-standing jealousy leading the main character of `Hauling Evelyn' to do so. Some of Anderson's tales take on a dark subtext, such as `Marital Bliss', or infuriate you at the pure selfishness of people, as the story `Junior' does. Ultimately, though, even these stories remain hopeful that a better day is just around the corner. `The Well Ain't Dry Yet' is cross-section of life as we know it in West Virginia. Anderson's characters feel as though they were living their lives before we opened the book and will go on living them after we've closed it again. She's merely allowed us to eavesdrop on them for a little while, with perhaps a little guilt for having done so. This is Anderson's true accomplishment. (This review originally appeared in the Reader's Corner weekly column of the West Virginia Daily News, April 1, 2002 edition.)
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Characters I would love to know,
This review is from: The Well Ain't Dry Yet (Paperback)
I have read, re-read and read again all of Belinda Anderson's books. I love them all! But for some reason, after re-reading The Well Ain't Dry, I felt that if at all possible I would love to know, or even have in my life people like those in this book. For that matter, I would love to know all the characters in all of Belinda's books! Belinda has a personal way of describing people or events in her stories that makes you feel for every one of them, even though they may be fictional. It must be grand to have such a gift of writing stories that uplift the soul and leave you with a smile, or perhaps leave you knowing yourself a little better. Thank you Belinda, and keep those stories coming!!
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