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May 09, 2013
The Huffinton Post Interviews Virginia Pye
In an article entitled Virginia Pye, First Time Novelist, on Writing, Writers Conferences, and How to Get Your Book Published appearing in the Huffington Post, columnist David Henry Sterry, interviews Virginia Pye, River of Dust author.
In the interview, Pye talks about finding memoirs written by her grandfather who was a missionary in northwestern China in the early 1900s, and had recorded his daily experience and impressions of that pre-industrialized, desolate, and yet eerily beautiful landscape.
River of Dust recently released by Unbridled Books, is story about a missionary couple whose small child is stolen by Mongol bandits. The Reverend sets out in search of the boy and becomes entangled in the rugged, corrupt landscape of opium dens, sly nomadic warlords and traveling circuses. He develops a following among the Chinese peasants who christen him Ghost Man for what they perceive as his otherworldly powers while his wife is pregnant with their second child and confined to her sick bed.
To read the entire interview on the Huffington Post website, Click Here
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