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		<title>Sweetwater Burning Release</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SWEETWATER BURNING (Bantam 2010) goes on sale. Download the press release: Sweetwater Burning Press Release
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		<link>http://h.cimp.ly/sharfeddin/2010/06/sweetwater-burning-release/</link>
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		<title>Radio Interview with Adrenaline Radio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Megan Willingham interviews Heather about SWEETWATER BURNING
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		<link>http://h.cimp.ly/sharfeddin/2010/06/radio-interview-with-adrenaline-radio/</link>
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		<title>New York Book Festival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Author Awards Reception &#8211; Algonquin Hotel
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		<link>http://h.cimp.ly/sharfeddin/2010/06/new-york-book-festival/</link>
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		<title>Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sunday, June 13 at 1:30 pm, Dearborne Station
Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest
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		<link>http://h.cimp.ly/sharfeddin/2010/03/chicago-tribune-printers-row-lit-fest-2/</link>
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		<title>Sweetwater Burning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chas McPherson and his father are shepherds&#8211;one of beasts, the other of souls. The hard-crusted, hard-drinking younger McPherson, a misunderstood loner, raises a breed of sheep known as Blackbellies. The father, dying of Parkinson&#8217;s, is tendd by a newly hired nurse with a past, Mattie Holden. The father had been a fire-and-brimstone pator whose uncanny [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://h.cimp.ly/sharfeddin/2010/03/blackbelly/</link>
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		<title>Windless Summer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the town of Rocket, Washington&#8211;a summer playground for windsurfers and tourists&#8211;a windless summer ignites fear as businesses and residents move away. Rocket&#8217;s motel, run by a lonely widower named Tom Jemmet, is hard hit. And Tom has demons of his own: memories of a beautiful wife that still haunt him, and a troubled young [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reviews</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Windless Summer is honored at the 2010 New York Book Festival. 
Sweetwater Burning (hardcover: Blackbelly) is honored at the 2010 San Francisco Book Festival. 
“Sharfeddin has captured the family-like entanglements in a small community—by showing us what happens when those relationships begin to come apart.” 
– Philadelphia Inquirer

“A good old-fashioned cowboy tale that’s as gritty as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

Sweetwater Burning is a suspenseful crime story centering on an act of bigotry against the lone Muslim family in a remote Idaho town. It is at the same time a sensitive novel of family dynamics—of a complex father-son relationship and of the evolving personal attractions and repulsions between the crusty rancher unjustly accused of the [...]]]></description>
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