The Raising (2011) (edit title/settings)

Nisareen - So Much To Read So Little Time edited the description of The Raising Friday, January 7, 2011.

• Laura Kasischke teaches inThe accident was tragic, yes. Bloody and horrific and claiming the Universitylife of Michigan MFA programa beautiful young sorority girl. Nicole was a straight-A student from a small town. Sweet-tempered, all-American, a former Girl Scout, and a virgin. But it was an accident. And that was last year. It's fall again, a new semester, a fresh start.

  Craig, who has not been charged with murder, is focusing on his classes, and also on avoiding Nicole's sorority sisters, who seem to blame him for her death even though the police did not.

  Perry, Craig's roommate, is working through his own grief (he grew up with Nicole, after all, and had known her since kindergarten) by auditing Professor Polson's sociology class: Death, Dying, and the Residential College. SheUndead.

  Mira has published seven collectionsbeen so busy with her babies -- two of them, twins, the most perfect boys you could imagine but still a nearly impossible amount of poetrywork even with Clark's help -- that she can barely keep herself together to teach (Death, Dying and seven novels. She lives with her familythe Undead), let alone write the book she'll need to publish for tenure.

  And Shelly, who was the first person at the scene of the accident, has given up calling the newspapers to tell them that, despite the ''lake of blood'' in Chelsea, Michigan.which they keep reporting the victim was found, the girl Shelly saw that night was not bloody, and not dead.

Shelfari edited the description of The Raising Friday, October 22, 2010.

• Laura Kasischke teaches in the University of Michigan MFA program and the Residential College. She has published seven collections of poetry and seven novels. She lives with her family in Chelsea, Michigan.