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Chris Candergraduated from the Honors College at the University of Houston, in the city where she was raised and still lives, with her husband, daughter, and son. For seven years she has been a writer-in-residence for Writers in the Schools there. She serves on the Inprint advisory board and stewards several Little Free Libraries in her community. Her first novel,11 Stories, won the Independent Publisher Gold Medal for Popular Fiction.Whisper Hollowwas long-listed for the Great Santini Fiction Prize by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance. Her most recent novel,The Weight of the Piano, was aUSA Todaybestseller.
[A] sweeping novel...Cander divinely delves into multiple points of view, crafting a collage of vibrant, layered characters while charting six decades of poignant, precise moments. A distinctive novel that sublimely measures the distressed though determined heartbeat of a small mountain community. -- Kirkus (starred review) Whisper Hollow is a haunting novel about the malleability of memory, about secrets and trickery, and about saints who are sinners and sinners who are saints. Cander paints a colorful portrait of a multi-ethnic, multi-generational West Virginia coal camp: a heaven of opportunity to some, a hell of stunted choices to others. --Marie Manilla, author of The Patron Saint of Ugly Like D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, Chris Cander's beautiful novel, Whisper Hollow, is about love that finds its object, and love that misses its mark and becomes destructive, in a community of coal miners. The story's locale is one where love (for God, or others) is blocked or displaced until that moment when it can finally express itself, in a setting where work itself may be deadly and time may always run out. Chris Cander's understanding of men and women is profound, and the scenes in this wonderful book will stay with you like a visionary experience. --Charles Baxter, author of Gryphon: New and Selected Stories The men in Chris Cander's Whisper Hollow toil underground, in the dark and dangerous coal mines of West Virginia. But her women mine territory twice as dark and twice as dangerous, they mine the human heart. Love and loss, devotion and longing, hope and despair, Cander renders all of this and more through the lives of three women spanning more than fifty years. Here is a novel so full of life--of its beauty and cruelty--that I emerged from it like one of those men walking from mines she so wonderfully evokes, like a man walking from the darkness into the light. --Peter Geye, author of The Lighthouse Road Cander writes with tremendous power and originality. Whisper Hollow grabs the reader with an immediacy that does not let go: this novel is inspired, haunting and heartbreakingly beautiful. --David Eagleman, author of Incognito and SUM: Forty Tales from the Afterlives Sometimes fiction is so good, so authentic, and the storyteller so convincing, that it just feels true. Whisper Hollow is one of those books. I'm blown away, honestly. Chris Cander has created characters with immortal souls. --Jamie Ford, New York Times best-selling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Praise for 11 Stories Her conclusion provides grounds for belief in the possibility of redemption; her sensitivity ensures that this novel will appeal to anyone with a story to tell, a group that includes us all. -- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) A wonderfully clever compilation. -- Kirkus
