“Picture this:
A mountain splintering the sky like a broken bone, its western precipice plummeting onto jumbled scree.”

—  Sheri S. Tepper

Source: The Visitor (2002), Ch. 1 : caigo faience, first lines (p. 1)

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American fiction writer 1929–2016

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