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Constance Squires is the author of the novels Live from Medicine Park and Along the Watchtower, and the forthcoming short story collection, Wounding Radius. Her fiction has appeared in Guernica, The Atlantic, Shenandoah, This Land, and numerous other magazines. Nonfiction has been featured on the NPR program Snap Judgment, and in the New York Times, Salon, The Village Voice, and others.
Constance Squires' Along the Watchtower is an often poignant rite-de- passage story of a daughter growing up in an Army family. Beginning on a military base in Germany in the early 1980s, Lucinda's peripatetic tale closes during the Desert Storm era, in Oklahoma, where the family--splintered over time--is in a sense restored. Lucinda's trajectory is accented with music and with acts of derring-do, but is also rife with ghosts and lost souls. <br> -Toni Graham, Author of Waiting for Elvis , Winner of the John Gardner Book Award <br><br> Set in 1980s West Germany and Lawton, Oklahoma, Constance Squires's compelling debut novel takes both ghost story and soldier's story and remyths these into a unique and fascinating hybrid. With unforgettable characters and a well-crafted plot, Along the Watchtower puts the screws to the reader and turns them tighter and tighter. Beautiful, brilliant, terrifying. <br> -Aaron Gwyn, author of Dog on the Cross and The World Beneath
