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    Cinnamon Girl
    Cinnamon Girl
    Cinnamon Girl
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    Cinnamon Girl

    By Lawrence Kessenich

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNorth Star Press of St. Cloud
    Release dateSep 3, 2016
    ISBN9781682010532
    Cinnamon Girl
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    Lawrence Kessenich

    Lawrence Kessenich is a fiction writer, poet, playwright, essayist, reviewer, and editor. He has published a number of short stories and won the 2010 Strokestown International Poetry Prize. He has three books of poetry: Strange News, Before Whose Glory, and Age of Wonders. He has also published essays, one of which was featured on NPR’s This I Believe, and appears in the anthology This I Believe: On Love. His short plays have been produced in New York, Boston, and Colorado, where he won the People’s Choice Award in a national drama competition. Kessenich is the co-managing editor of Ibbbetson Street literary magazine. Cinnamon Girl is his first novel.

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