Heaven, Indiana
By Jan Maher
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One hot week in August 1954 in Heaven, Indiana a baby is secretly delivered twice: first in a barn by her grandfather Lester, then to the tent door of a carnival fortune-teller by her grandmother Helen. Nadja grows up traveling the carnival circuit with her adoptive Granny, learning to develop her own gifts of precognition by reading the leftovers on Midwestern dinner plates.
In spite of the penchant Heaven's denizens have for quietly getting into each other's business, a great many secrets remain hidden, stuffed into apron pockets, tucked into attic trunks, locked into desk drawers, forgotten in underground passageways. When Nadja and Granny reappear in Heaven, and these stories are teased into the open, the town is forever changed.
Jan Maher
Jan Maher's novel Earth As It Is was named a Best Indie of 2017 by Kirkus Reviews and was American Fiction Awards 2018 LGBT Award Winner. Her novel Heaven, Indiana garnered Best Indie of 2018 designation from Kirkus Reviews. Her play Most Dangerous Women has been produced in dozens of venues in fourteen states since its debut performance in Seattle in 1990. Her books for educators and community activists include Most Dangerous Women: Bringing History to Life through Readers' Theater and History in the Present Tense (co-authored with Doug Selwyn). She lives in Greenfield, MA with her husband Doug Selwyn where she is a co-coordinator of The LAVA Center, an arts incubator, black-box theater, and community gathering space in downtown Greenfield. A retired educator, Maher holds a PhD from The Union Institute and University in Interdisciplinary Studies and is a senior scholar at the Institute for Ethics in Public Life, State University of New York at Plattsburgh.
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