From North Carolina comes the electrifying new voice of Nicole Sarrocco, whose debut novel Lit by Lightning--first in the Occasionally Trueseries--is an intensely personal and strangely universal tale of finding grace in chaos, creating meaning from nonsense, and for heaven's sake not making too much of a spectacle of yourself. A witty, hilarious, transcendent and disturbing tale of ghosts, manners, and the family we choose and the ones who choose us.
"I could sweep together the dust of our hearts. The ashes of my grandparents' house that didn't burn. The...
From North Carolina comes the electrifying new voice of Nicole Sarrocco, whose debut novel Lit by Lightning--first in the Occasionally...
You know how it is. Daily life, I mean: coffee pots, the carpool lane, work schedules and voice mails. The unexpected Santeria spell. What to do with all those ashes... you know, of your loved ones. And then there's the interruptions from storytelling ghosts with no sense of decorum...
So one day you stop pretending to be normal. Because not even your shampoo is normal, and the dog has still got to be picked up from the vet, even if your house still has its original owner prowling the ground floor, looking for a blender to make Margaritas. One day, you just have to tell somebody. Even...
You know how it is. Daily life, I mean: coffee pots, the carpool lane, work schedules and voice mails. The unexpected Santeria spell. What to do wi...
Sometimes, the walls can talk. And the stories they tell are usually the last thing you were expecting. For Nicole, whip-smart and happily married mother of two, the stories are everywhere--emanating from the old family land, leaping out of old photographs, trailing her in a field at midnight--and the trick is to sort out which ones need listening to and which ones just need a good telling-off.
The bizarrely hilarious misadventures of one woman's sometimes ghostly experiences that began in "Lit by Lightning" continue in "Ill-Mannered Ghosts," and if it's possible, the tales...
Sometimes, the walls can talk. And the stories they tell are usually the last thing you were expecting. For Nicole, whip-smart and happily married ...
Sometimes, the walls can talk. And the stories they tell are usually the last thing you were expecting. For Nicole, whip-smart and happily married mother of two, the stories are everywhere--emanating from the old family land, leaping out of old photographs, trailing her in a field at midnight--and the trick is to sort out which ones need listening to and which ones just need a good telling-off.
The bizarrely hilarious misadventures of one woman's sometimes ghostly experiences that began in "Lit by Lightning" continue in "Ill-Mannered Ghosts," and if it's possible, the tales...
Sometimes, the walls can talk. And the stories they tell are usually the last thing you were expecting. For Nicole, whip-smart and happily married ...