Sideways to the Sun: A Novel

Sideways to the Sun
A Novel
LINDA SILLITOE
Paperback. 264 Pages. / 0-941214-56-7 / $7.95

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Rejecting male stereotypes about women, Sillitoe looks beyond the surface of a Bountiful, Utah, community to examine one woman's struggle for autonomy. Megan Steven's ordinary and happy life takes an unexpected turn one night when her soft-spoken husband does not return home as usual after work. Neither widowed nor divorced, yet suddenly single, Megan finds herself increasingly estranged from the comfortable assumptions, institutions, and friends that she thought would always support her. Struggling to see herself and her four children through the crisis, Megan determines not to remain a victim. In the process, she will discover where her husband Richard has gone and why.

Linda Sillitoe is a graduate of the University of Utah. As a Deseret News staff reporter, news features editor for Utah Holiday magazine, and a New York Times correspondent, she garnered writing awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and Associated Press. Her non-fiction includes Banking on the Hemingways, Salamander, Friendly Fire, and Welcoming the World. Her fiction includes Crazy for Living, Secrets Keep, and Windows on the Sea. She is a contributor to Bright Angels and Familiars, The Evening and the Morning, Greening Wheat, Harvest, and The Wilderness of Faith. She has taught on four college campuses; co-produced the PBS-affiliated documentary "Navajo and American"; and published in Exponent II, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and Sunstone. She currently lives in Arizona.