Content: coming of age
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 | Dear in the Headlights | mindgames | Novel | Literary Fiction | 3 | n/a | May 28, 2008 |
Summary:Jeff is a sports-writer in his late twenties living in a town in Connecticut which seems to have been transported straight out of the fifties. The underlying prejudices and feelings of hostility towards the idea of "new things" and "new people" are engrained in his memory from boyhood. Yet as he matures as an adult he comes to see the evils inherent. This story is about two characters evolving into decent human beings, about the intrinsic differences between right and wrong, and the concept of loss. Intertwined is my attempt at satire. I hope you enjoy it.Chapters: |
| Leaving Loretta Behind | buster | Novel | Literary Fiction | 2 | n/a | Mar 31, 2008 |
Summary:In October, 1951, we meet five year old Louise Stokes, a product of a very dysfunctional family comprised of an alcoholic, abusive father, a mother who is basically a doormat, and a sister, older by fifteen months who is sometimes protector, sometimes nemesis.
Just before Louise's tenth birthday, her parents, Riley and JoEllen, leave her and her sister, Christine, in the care of their grandmother while they go to Chicago to escape the scandal caused by her father's illicit affair. Louise settles into a quieter way of life, but when the school year ends, she is transplanted once again, reunited with her parents.
As a teenager, Louise meets an older man and begins a relationship with him. When she finds herself pregnant, she must make a choice. Will she have the baby and give it up for adoption, have an illegal abortion, or marry the man responsible and try to have a normal life? Chapters: |
| Sanaz's Story | lisa | Novel | Literary Fiction | 6 | n/a | Mar 20, 2008 |
Summary:On a snowy day in January 1985, Sanaz’ husband finally agrees to meet her to sign the divorce papers. Before any pen meets paper, he pulls out a gun, shoots her and then himself. When she survives and he does not, Sanaz faces both an end and a beginning. The novel proceeds with Sanaz’s teens up to this trauma, and the time of the shooting forward.Chapters: |
