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Susie Finkbeiner is the author of The Nature of Small Birds, Stories That Bind Us, and All Manner of things which was selected as a Michigan Notable Book. The All-American is her ninth novel.

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	All Manner of Things 4.41 avg rating — 2,644 ratings — published 2019 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The All-American 4.19 avg rating — 2,024 ratings — published 2023 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Cup of Dust (Pearl Spence, #1) 4.18 avg rating — 1,755 ratings — published 2015 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	A Trail of Crumbs: A Novel of the Great Depression (Pearl Spence #2) 4.29 avg rating — 731 ratings — published 2017 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Song of Home: A Novel of the Swing Era (Pearl Spence #3) 4.45 avg rating — 582 ratings — published 2017 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Something Borrowed by Rachel Scott McDaniel (Goodreads Author), Susie Finkbeiner (Goodreads Author), Allison Pittman (Goodreads Author) 4.49 avg rating — 148 ratings — published 2024 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Of Birds and Providence

I don’t know how this story ends.

But I do know how it started.

We’d just finished watching Jeopardy! on the eve of my twin sons’ thirteenth birthday. I sent the boys outside to run off the last of their energy before bed and I stepped into the kitchen to do up the supper dishes.

One boy came back in, telling me I had to come to the backyard.

I’m the kind of housekeeper who is always happy for an e

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“That was when I learned that kindness could break a heart just as sure as meanness. The difference was the kindness made that broken heart softer. Meanness just made the heart want to be hard.”
― Susie Finkbeiner, A Cup of Dust

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“I had plenty of friends if the characters from books counted.”
― Susie Finkbeiner, The All-American

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“The world was full of awful people who did terrible and ugly things. Most of them were only awful because of the scars on their hearts.”
― Susie Finkbeiner, A Cup of Dust: A Novel of the Dust Bowl

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Those We Thought We Knew, by David Joy

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On Agate Hill, by Lee Smith

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Gods and Generals, by Jeff Shaara

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The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had, by Kristin Levine

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In the Season of Blood and Gold, by Taylor Brown

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A Cup of Dust, by Susie Finkbeiner

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