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Ken Burger is a native of Allendale, S.C., and a graduate of the University of Georgia. He joined The Post and Courier in 1984 and served as the paper's Washington, D.C., correspondent in the mid-1980s. From 1988 until 2008, Burger was executive sports editor and wrote an award-winning sports column. He was hailed as one of the country's best sports columnist by the Associated Press three times. He won numerous writing awards in South Carolina and was honored as S.C. Journalist of the Year in 1996. Burger published his first novel, Swallow Savannah, in 2008. He began writing a metro column for The Post and Courier in January 2009. Burger published his second novel, Sister Santee, in 2010.

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Sep112010

Ken Burger has done it again! Our favorite newspaper columnist uses words like a surgeon’s scalpel to peel the skin off his native state, that asylum we all know as South Carolina, exposing its haunted history and some infamously flawed people who crawl out of his mangy imagination.

His second novel, Sister Santee, creates a perfect Palmetto State storm where changing times and racial realities torture every poor soul caught in the Sturm and Drang of the state’s self-imposed and natural disasters.

While focusing on the pine-scented swath known as Santee-Cooper Country, Ken takes us into the desperate dungeons of the State Mental Hospital on Bull Street, on a wild ride in a hijacked Air Force cargo plane, and inside the eye of a storm that changes the landscape and lives of everyone in its path.

So fasten your seatbelt, you’re in for a bumpy ride. Just like his first novel, Swallow Savannah, you won’t be able to put this one down.

- PAT CONROY

Written by Ken Burger

Fiction
Hardcover with dust jacket
ISBN: 978-0-9825154-5-7

$26.95 (plus $5.00 shipping)

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