Indiana Winter

"No matter where you live, once you have seen Indiana shining in Susan Neville's unmistakable light, you will look at your own place with clearer vision. She carries us through an inward, as well as an outward landscape, on a journey that is by turns harrowing and enchanting." - Scott Russell Sanders. "Susan Neville is defining the emerging genre of the new nonfiction. The stories she has to tell in "Indiana Winter" are tales of great emotion and stunning insight. These words have heft, texture, and teeth. They feel, and they feel right." - Michael Martone. Susan Neville gives us a fascinating collection of essays and stories and essay-stories on the state of our state, including a very special look at prisons and a jail, country churches, small towns and farms, a blood bank, the State Fair, the Dillinger Museum in Nashville, John Mellencamp's art opening in Seymour, and New Harmony on the day Iben Browning predicted that an earthquake would destroy it. "Indiana Winter" is a unique and sensitive look at the state, transcending both time and place.