Dina Greenberg

Down Here We Come Up, which took more than fifteen years to write, started as an exploration of the jarring class differences between the northern and southern United States. But the novel Sara Johnson Allen actually completed, set just outside of Wilmington, NC, raises even deeper questions about what defines family and a home place, and whether ancestral ties are enough.

Author Lawrence (Larry) Winters is a Vietnam Veteran and an author of two books: The Making & Unmaking of a Marine: One Man's Struggle for Forgiveness &…