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Genre: Mainstream Fiction
About NancyCzLocation: Ann Arbor, MI Home Region: Age:32 Website: www.twitter.com/ThisBizarreLife Favorite novels: Fortress of Solitude, The Little Prince, Catcher in the Rye, The Hottest State, 1984, The Handmaid's Tale, The Giver Favorite writers: Lethem, Banks, Atwood, Franzen, Rennison (oh, hush!), Palaniuk, Robbins, Lowry... Favorite music: Depends on what I'm writing... I approach this very scientifically. Non-noveling interests: reading, activism, wine, beer, playing outside, unionism, more beer, cooking, board games, and some more beer... |
Joined: October 30, 2009 This Year: Official Participant NaNoWriMo History: NaNoWriMo posts: 20 NaNoWriMo buddies: 15
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Brief Author Bio: I've always said I'd write a novel... thanks to PiscesPaul's tweet, the encouragement I get on my short fiction from fellow ficleteers, and this website it might just happen. I've been writing since I was a little kid hiding under my blankets with a pencil, flashlight and legal pad and continue to do so sporadically (although more and more regularly) with the help of 100words.com, ficly.com and now this site. I live in Ann Arbor with my husband (who is not a writer), 2 dogs and a cat and work for a labor union representing the contractual and legal rights of public school employees. I hope to some day write a work of non-fiction around labor unions and the issues related to our overly WalMarted world. For now, though, I'm freaking out about the fact that I have no clue how to write a novel, and my ideas range from lame-ass love story to weird sci-fi involving a cartoon lion to a tale of an old man struggling with the mortality of himself and those around him. Can't wait to start! |
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Synopsis: The Grievant
In Sheffield, Vermont, a rural town full of farms and factories, Mel struggles to understand his place relative to his high school sweetheart (now far away in law school), his family (made up of himself, his mother, his dead father and his dead younger brother), and his job. Having come back to Sheffield, giving up a full football scholarship, he lives on the farm where he grew up and works at a factory where horrible working conditions are the norm. The suicide of a colleague is enough to push him to realize that he needs to do something to help those around him and possibly, in the process, himself.
An exploration of life, love, and death with a dose of social commentary and analysis of the modern view of unionism, "The Grievant" is an at-times nostalgic, at-times poignant, at-times blunt coming of age novel that aims to prove that it's okay to be afraid to leave your childhood behind.
Excerpt: The Grievant
He remembered a day, years ago, when Peryn had sat on his bed. Cross-legged in jeans and a tank top, shoulders and nose peeling their early summer skin from the initial burn she got each year. "Wanna hear a secret?" she'd whispered. And then they had slowly come together and moved in a way that they would come together and move together for years to come. It had to have been the summer after tenth or eleventh grade. The pang in his heart was immediate... realizing that he was already starting to forget. He couldn't come up with just what the "secret" had been, when she had whispered it, what his response had been.
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