Falling Through the Night launches February 2024! Order your copy here.
“Beautifully crafted prose and attention to detail.” -Lori Shwydky, publisher, Rebel Mountain Press
“One part magical romance and two parts unflinching account of a queer woman’s messy journey.” -Dr. Jennifer Marlow, author and Professor of English, College of St. Rose
“A page turner…a breathtaking debut novel.” -Glo Harris, Executive Coach
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Audrey Meyerwitz wants to fall in love and have a family. But for this queer 30-something insomniac who’s struggled with Generalized Anxiety Disorder since childhood, it’s a goal that’s far from simple. Audrey’s life has been packed full of sleepless nights, pills, psychiatrists, and a string of nightmare girlfriends.
When best friend Jessica, a recovering alcoholic, helps introvert Audrey with a profile on SheLovesHer, Audrey takes that scary first step toward her lifelong dream: a healthy family. Audrey falls for Denise, a French Canadian from Montreal, and they negotiate love across a border. Audrey eventually immigrates and creates a new life in Quebec, including marriage, a gang of queer friends called The Itchy Mortals, and eventually, a twin pregnancy.
But her path is far from smooth. One of the twins has Down Syndrome, and Audrey faces her adoptive mother’s disapproval when she and Denise decide to give the child up. She struggles in marriage after baby, with a disappearing sex life, a massive crush on a colleague, and guilt she can’t help feeling about Jessica’s sudden relapse. Finally, Audrey unearths a secret about her mother, and the discovery changes everything she understood about her place in the world, as a mother, a daughter, and a person with mental illness.
What does it take to create loving relationships from roots of profound alienation? With humor, honesty, and complexity, Audrey learns that healthy love means accepting both gains and losses, taking off the blinders of fantasy, and embracing the messiness that defines human nature and human families.
Order your copy here!