Lucinda Richards, only seventeen, accepts a teaching position in west Texas in 1911, and is forced to modify her ideas concerning love and life
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Jane Roberts Wood received the Texas Institute of Letters award in 1998 for the Best Short Story, received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities to study at Yale, as well as a NEA Fellowship. A member of TIL and PEN, she lives with her husband, Dub, in Dallas, Texas.
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