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  • Bibliography:
    11 Books
  • First Book:
    September 1990
  • Latest Book:
    April 2023
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Book List in Order: 11 titles



  • Lizzie Macon--whose sister, pregnant by an Indian, has been banished from the family--represses her sexuality and becomes involved in charismatic religions in this exploration of religious and racial prejudice in a Montana mill town...




  • In the unforgiving vortex of the American heartland, when you have to choose, you always choose life For Iona Moon, the open fields of the Kila Flats and the town of White Falls are centuries apart rather than the distance of a few miles. Mocked and ...



  • The author of Girls in the Grass presents another collection of her short stories, including the tale of a privileged Florida girl who reveals that the secret dangers of her life include alligators and a crippled grandfather....



  • A fusion of family myth with American History, Sweet Hearts is set in the wild and beautiful plains and forests of Montana and recounts the searing story of a brother and sister haunted by their family's turmoil and half-forgotten heritage. At sixtee...



  • A vibrant selection of stories from the author of Sweet Hearts and First, BodyThis selection of Melanie Rae Thon's stories showcases her breathtaking ability to become each one of her characters, to move inside the bodies and minds of the dispossesse...



  • Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4Missing:  seventeen-year-old Kai Dionne and his dog Talia.  The search for these two spans a single day, morning twilight to late evening, from the time Kai leaps in a half-frozen river to save the do...



  • Immigrants lost in the blistering expanse of the Sonoran Desert, problem bears, bats pollinating saguaros, a Good Samaritan filling tanks at emergency water stations, and the terrified runaway boy who shoots him pierce the heart and mind of Rosana De...



  • In stark, fevered, poetic lines, Valen Arnoux confesses his intimate participation in 131 executions. As a prison guard and member of the strap down team, he is compelled to rehearse, to perfect his timing and skills, to synchronize his movements wit...






  • Winner of a 1997 Whiting Writers' Award One of Granta's "Best Young American Novelists"Ranging across a uniquely American landscape, from rural Idaho and suburban Arizona to downtown Boston, the eleven stories in Melanie Rae Thon's eagerly awaited re...



  • A love song in three movementsAs If Fire Could Hide Us explores the expansiveness of consciousness and compassion through and beyond the human body.A twelve-year-old girl slips out a basement window, steals a bike, and sets off on a perilous adventur...


Award-Winning Books by Melanie Rae Thon

In This Light
2011 Utah Book Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Melanie Rae Thon has published 11 books.

Melanie Rae Thon does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, As If Fire Could Hide Us, was published in April 2023.

The first book by Melanie Rae Thon, Meteors in August, was published in September 1990.

No. Melanie Rae Thon does not write books in series.