The Book of One Hundred Truths (15 page)

Julie Schumacher
is the author of
Grass Angel,
a PEN Center USA Literary Award Finalist for Children’s Literature, and
The Chain Letter
. She is also the author of numerous short stories and two books for adults, including
The Body Is Water,
an Ernest Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award Finalist for First Fiction and an ALA Notable Book of the Year.

An associate professor of English at the University of Minnesota, Julie Schumacher lives with her husband and their two daughters in St. Paul.

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Copyright © 2006 by Julie Schumacher

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