Read This & Tell Me What It Says

In her first full-length story collection, author A. Manette Ansay explores the rural Midwest landscape and the people who inhabit it: ordinary folk with extraordinary inner lives, struggling to make sense of the isolated, sometimes painful, and often intensely religious worlds in which they live. Her are 15 haunting and exquisitely written tales that offer a rare and unforgettable glimpse into the complexities of being human and being alive.

Author Biography: A. Manette Ansay was born in Lapeer, Michigan in 1964, and grew up in Port Washington, Wisconsin among sixty-seven cousins and over a hundred second cousins. She started writing as a New Year's resolution on January 1st, 1988 after developing a muscle disorder which made it necessary for her to find a career she could manage sitting down. Her first novel, Vinegar Hill, was published in 1994, followed by a story collection, Read This and Tell Me What it Says in 1995. She has since published three more novels: Sister (1996) River Angel (1998) and the newly released Midnight Champagne. She's been awarded a Pushcart Prize, A Friends of American Writers Prize, and the Great Lakes Book Award, among others. Her books have been reprinted throughout Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom. She lives in New York City with her husband of nine years, where she is at work on a memoir and another novel.