In Kirsti Sandy's new collection of essays, She Lived, and Other Girls Died , there are stories of family and work....of Sandy's search for her own place, and of the people she met along the way. She spoke with NHPR's Peter Biello about the book, which won Bauhan Publishing's 2017 Monadnock Essay Collection Prize, in her office at Keene State College. Kirsti Sandy's Top Five Reading Recommendations 1. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser. "This book, based on the 1906 murder of Grace Brown in the Adirondacks, continues to resonate. Gatsby was published in the same year, and while both books feature social hierarchies, men who strive for wealth and privilege, and the women who fall victim to this striving, Dreiser’s book for me is the more complex and haunting. We can both understand and detest Clyde Griffiths and we are complicit in what created him. In this book, the past is always something to escape, to bury, but it always catches up with you." 2. Infrastructures by Elizabeth