COMPLICIT is here
Today is the day my second book, Complicit, is released into the world. It’s a book about secrets and tragedy, melody and dissonance, sibling love and sibling rivalry. It’s a book about adoption and loss and guilt and gain and the endless wondering if where one comes from even matters at all, Maybe now is all that means anything.
If you read it, I hope you like it. I hope you listen to a little Thelonious Monk along the way, too.
For anyone who is in the Bay Area, I am throwing a launch party on Thursday, June 26, … read the rest
Loving Day 2014
Today is June 12, which means it’s Loving Day. I talk about this day every year because it’s a day worth celebrating. On June 12, 1967, the US Supreme Court struck down all anti-miscenegation laws as unconstitutional in their ruling of Loving v. Virginia. These were laws that forbade interracial marriage, and the Supreme Court’s ruling allowed Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving to be legally married after their 9-year fight with the state of Virginia. It’s the Lovings’ legacy that is honored and remembered today, and they are the reason my husband and I have been happily married for … read the rest
loving june
My first real copy of COMPLICIT showed up in the mail yesterday. It’s always a thrill to see an idea that’s lived inside your head for so long become a thing. Oh, and it’s a beautiful thing. Kerri Resnick at St. Martin’s did such a gorgeous job with the cover design.
The arrival of this book also means June is here. Summer. Loving Day. Launch day. Children sleeping late and bounding around the house. Spring went by in a flash, and I have a feeling this month will, too. COMPLICIT officially … read the rest
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