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Summer/Fall 1999 • Vol. XXI No. 3/4 • Fiction |

The Year the World Turned

By Beth Bosworth

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Beth Bosworth is the author of The Source of Life and Other Stories (University of Pittsburgh Press), for which she received the Drue Heinz Literature Prize in 2012. Her other books are the novel Tunneling (Crown Books) and a debut collection, A Burden of Earth and Other Stories (Hanging Loose Press). She divides her time between Vermont and Brooklyn, NY, where she teaches English at Saint Ann's School and edits The Saint Ann's Review.

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