"Take your broken heart, make it into art,” Carrie Fisher.
365
Synopsis: 365 is a darkly comic novel about a family in crisis told through the eyes of three females across three generations in the family. It’s about the everyday battles we face that chip away at us, the routine conversations that can devastate us, and the customary lies that we tell ourselves. It’s about finding the strength of will to go on in heart-breaking circumstances, and the necessity of finding the humour in every situation... Jennifer is a 40YO writer and photographer who’s been brutalised by a painful separation and divorce. Usually outgoing and witty, she’s finding it hard to find anything to laugh about at the moment. Her friends are urging her to date but she’s terrified that she’ll make the same mistakes she’s made before. Juliana is Jennifer’s 13-year-old daughter. Intelligent, articulate, and wise beyond her years, she’s struggling to come to terms with her parent’s divorce and blames her mother. Little does she know that her mother is doing her best to protect her and her little brother from her father’s secret. Rose is Jennifer’s 70-year-old mother. The matriarch of the family, she’s a strong, stubborn woman who always thinks she knows best. Jennifer’s divorce was a huge shock to her sheltered and stable world, and she’s finding it hard to accept the changes that it has wrought. As the story unfolds and things spin further and further out of control, one thing becomes clear: the truth will find a way out. But long-held family convictions are tough to shake and learning to own one’s faults and mistakes won’t be easy for any of them.
Format: Novel
Stage of development: in development. Sample available.
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Description: A collection of literary non-fiction essays/autobiographical short stories exploring cultural identity, family dynamics and women’s issues. Told with trademark honesty, self-reflection, and dry wit.
Format: a collection of short stories
Stage of development - completed stories.