Dawn Turner Trice

Dawn Turner Trice's books are fiction that leans on history and community. An Eighth of August is a literary novel set around an annual heritage celebration in the small town of Halley's Landing, Illinois, where a chorus of residents and a mother and daughter at odds with each other carry the story. Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven is a coming-of-age novel with a satirical streak, also rooted in historical fiction.