Meredith Lanning writes literary fiction about people who followed the procedure and lost someone anyway. What She Carried Home braids a human rights investigator's count of the dead with a teacher training course in Rishikesh and a sentence she has never said out loud. It refuses the easy verdict of personal guilt and asks the harder one: what happens to a person when the system was correct and a body still paid.
Books
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What She Carried Home
An investigator who spent two years counting the dead of a war arrives at a teacher training course in Rishikesh carrying a resignation and one sentence she has never said out loud.
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Beneficial Use
A snowpack hydrologist and her husband open their marriage on paper, with clauses and dated amendments, and the agreement works exactly as written. Under western water law you keep only the water you actually use. Everything else is abandoned by disuse, and the abandonment has a date.
Forthcoming