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The other day, just for the hell of it, I googled "authors from Groves, Texas." I was expecting to see authors closeto Groves, but no cigar. Well, I was wrong.
Imagine my surprise when I discovered Mary Karr's name staring back at me. I guess there was a pompous side of me that was convinced that no one from this little town boasted literary credentials. Now, if you're talking musicians, the Golden Triangle is bursting at the seams with such notables as Janis Joplin, The Winter brothers, George Jones, Percy Sledge, Jerry LaCroix, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown and the list goes on and on.
I have to be honest though, while it is a well-known fact that musical pioneers are plentiful in southeast Texas, I find it intriguing to find another author who knows my town like I do. Granted, she lives in the New York area now, but now literary types have someone to look up to from our area now. They know the stifling heat, the oil refinery as the employment of choice and that life stops for the Pecan Festival each year. I remember picking up pecans in my family's yard so that we could sell them to pay for our taxes. Groves is a way of life. It just is. I can't say that I was always happy with the type of life it presented, but my main character in my new novel knows it as well as anyone.
I'd like to get Mary Karr to review my book before it goes to print. Maybe she'll be reminded of how it is to be from Groves and offer to do it for me.
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