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Genre: Mainstream Fiction
About superblifeLocation: Fayetteville AR Home Region: Age:53 Website: http://theemptynestchronicles.blogspot.com Favorite writers: Anne Lamott, John Irving, Steve Martin, Pat Conroy, Zora Neale Hurston, Mark Twain, Jane Austen, William Shakespeare... Non-noveling interests: walking; listening to live music, particularly jazz and blues; great dinners with friends; the rare treasure of time with any or all of my three adult 'kids' |
Joined: octobre 25, 2009 This Year: Official Participant NaNoWriMo History: NaNoWriMo posts: 12 NaNoWriMo buddies: 6
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Brief Author Bio: Within the last six months, I've become an empty-nester after a long stint at single parenting, taken a sabbatical from a demanding career, moved 250 miles from my (former) home, and now am about to fulfill a long-time desire to write a book. |
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Synopsis: Of All My Father's Wives: journal of a curious daughter
It's a revolving door of stepmothers after six-year-old Annie's mother dies. Many years later, she recounts her tale in part through the rediscovery of her childhood journals and father's papers. Curiosity aroused further, she delves more deeply into her father's past and discovers that number of wives--and children--just keeps ticking upward.
Excerpt: Of All My Father's Wives: journal of a curious daughter
Betty. Phyllis. Ellen. Katherine. Helen. Ruby. Toby. Jo. Nadine. Nora. I thought for a very long time that this was the whole list of my father’s wives. My mother was Helen, the fifth one, who my dad married when he was forty-three and she was twenty-eight and pregnant with me. She died when I was six and I got my first stepmother eight weeks later. I was nine when I overheard about some of the others before her. But I think I’m getting a bit ahead of myself. I'm just going to tell you what I know so far. And I'm going to tell you what I know most of all -- that this is a story of redemption. It would be a good thing if you're not here for a sappy, heart-warming story, because that's not what this is about. It is a story of redemption, which in this case, has a name: Nora.
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