Susan Stinson
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What others say about Susan Stinson and her work: "I am an enormous fan of Susan Stinson's work, and, as a fan, consider it my duty to help more and more people know about its wonders: I can think of no-one who writes with more love, passion, and precision about the pleasures of the body and the pleasures of the soul, and that nebulous (often neglected) intersection of body and soul. She writes extraordinary love stories, with intelligence and generosity and a wild imagination." Elizabeth McCracken, author The Giant's House (National Book Award finalist) "Through an ardent faith in the written word Susan Stinson is a novelist who translates a mundane world into the most poetic of possibilities." Alice Sebold, author The Lovely Bones "Venus of Chalk is a classic road novel, full of unexpected revelations and parallels between Carline's old world and her new, but her interior and physical life are like nothing you've ever read before. " Chicago Reader "Like her characters, Stinson is “chronically interested” in every aspect of life and her incredible eye for detail is astonishing and translates movingly into the pages of this wonderful novel." Altar Magazine "The magic of this elegant novel is that it embraces both the surreal and the so real with sublime charm." Richard Labonte, Book Marks "Stinson's prose style is reminiscent of some independent films--quiet, plain, quirky and true." The Women's Times "...one of the best books of the year." Midwest Book Review "Susan Stinson uses her exceptional literary vision to take the readers along on a wild bus ride of our own, all the while facing ourselves, and returning, renewed, to our extraordinary lives." Janet Mason This Way Out |
WritingVenus of Chalk
Venus of Chalk, Susan's most recent novel, was published by Firebrand Books in 2004. It is the story unlikely companions on a fast bus to Texas. VENUS OF CHALK was one of top ten fiction books of 2004 in Richard Labonte's Book Marks column. 
Martha Moody
Winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award in Fiction, Martha Moody is a speculative western, embracing both ordinary and magical details of women's lives in the old west. It is, also, an old-fashioned love story. In precise language that dips into the sensuous delights of the flesh and the palate, the reader witnesses the love in Amanda Linger's life. "A tale of longing and self identification and reconciliation. Amanda Linger pines for shop owner Martha Moody whose girth, sensuous folds of flesh and loving caresses pull Amanda out of the stasis of a loveless marriage...MARTHA MOODY is a tender exquisitely rendered story with strong characters, a sense of love and magic surrounding them, and one incredible cow." Icon Magazine, Toronto 
Fat Girl Dances with Rocks
It's the summer of drinking and driving, disco and diets, fake IDs and geology, and fat 17-year-old Char is wondering if she is animal, vegetable, or mineral. What does it mean when your best friend French-braids your hair, kisses you on the lips, and leaves town? Char gets a summer job in a nursing home, and meets people with bodies and abilities as various as the textures of the rocks her friend Felice collects. Fat Girl Dances with Rocks is a novel about the many shapes of beauty: the fold of a belly, the green swelling of seedlings, the sharp edges of granite, obsidian, and flint. Fat Girl Dances with Rocks is a coming of age story. It is a coming out story, and for Char, it is a story of coming into her own body - all the way to the edges of her skin. Spider In a Tree
Here is the prologue from a newly completed manuscript, which is a novel about eighteenth century theologian Jonathan Edwards, his family and the people enslaved in his household. An excerpt has been published in Early American Studies. There are videos of Susan Stinson reading from the novel featured on the website of the Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University. |
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