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Melissa Scholes Young
Melissa Scholes Young is a writer, mother, teacher, and friend. Shes a small town Midwestern girl who loves the big city. She still has a crush on her husband of fifteen years but recently gave a piece of her heart away to a chocolate Labrador named Huckleberry Finn. A former high school English teacher who now teaches Creative Writing and College Writing at American University. She loves sipping espresso and fishing with her dad.
Genres: General Fiction
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Melissa Scholes Young recommends
The Promise of a Normal Life (2023)
Rebecca Kaiser Gibson
"The Promise of a Normal Life is a stunning story beautifully told. With themes of exile, loneliness, and family, it's a book about the triumph of a human spirit and what we must sometimes go through to reach our destination and find our voice along the way."
Ways the World Could End (2022)
Kim Hooper
"In Kim Hooper's capable hands, humor prevails in this touching tale of loss, isolation, and forgiveness."
Flight Risk (2021)
Joy Castro
"Flight Risk is a compelling, gritty portrait of class in America. Joy Castro traffics the rural-urban divide with complexity and compassion. The protagonist, Isabel Morales, an outsider turned artist, guides the reader through poverty, wealth, and the beating heart of our political divide as she reclaims her roots in coal-country West Virginia while reconciling the privileged life she’s built in Chicago. This is outlaw fiction at its best."
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