The Beautiful Plain
Set amid the cornfields of central Nebraska, The Beautiful Plain opens on a hot afternoon in a hay barn, where three adolescents push a cardboard box filled with a girl to the edge of the loft. What begins as a prank will reverberate for decades, especially for Laura, who learns that afternoon just how far she will travel for acceptance.
About Jennifer Sinor
Writer, teacher, mother, and certified yoga instructor, Jennifer Sinor is the author of several books, most recently the novel The Beautiful Plain. Her work has been selected for Best American Essays and anthologized in The Norton Reader. The recipient of the Stipend in American Modernism, Jennifer has also been nominated for the National Magazine Award. When she is not writing or teaching or spending time with her husband, the poet Michael Sowder, and their adult children, Jennifer can be found practicing yoga in Logan, Utah. A professor of English, Jennifer teaches creative writing at Utah State University. Read More