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			Beneath the Pines examines a Southern family's conflicting values about sex, religion, and the past. In 1957, Mary Alice McDonnell was a rebellious teenager in love with a rich Yankee boy, Michael Harrison, who had just moved to her small Virginia mountain town - much to the chagrin of her strict, God-fearing mother, Lavinia. By 2004, Mary Alice has become a sixty-three year old spinster Biology teacher who hasn't spoken to her mother in over forty years. When Lavinia dies, Mary Alice's graduate-student niece, Claire, inherits the family house and moves to Virginia, bringing along a deep curiosity about her family's dark past, as well as news of the long-lost Michael Harrison - and plenty of emotional baggage of her own.
	"Janet Beard weaves a rich tale of family ties lost and rediscovered, hearts broken and mended, and secrets with the power to imprison - or set her characters free. Beneath the Pines is a thoroughly engaging read by an enormously gifted storyteller." -Julie Mars "A moving tale of love, loss, and the triumph of hope by a terrific young author with a great future." -Chris Grey		Born and raised in east Tennessee, Janet Beard moved to New York in 1997 to attend NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she studied Dramatic Writing. She went on to write three feature-length screenplays, as well as the script for a short film, One Night Stand, which screened at film festivals around the country. In 2003, her focus shifted to fiction, and she began work on an MFA in Creative Writing at The New School. Her thesis project became her first novel, Beneath the Pines. She is at work on a collection of short stories.
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