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| About the Book | |
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When Lina’s sanity derails before her best friend Ricky’s eyes, he labels this chapter of their lives, “The Great Snap”, as she battles more demons than just her step-mother and adulterous husband, while raising young twins and readjusting to life in suburban Detroit, after twenty years away. Feeling powerless, the curvy blonde shamelessly succumbs to her lust for life with multiple men and youthful indulgences, while rekindling old flames and casting vengeance upon previous offenders. Determined to take back what is hers, she realizes her admirers can be useful. The Motown Mood Cafe, owned by Lina’s lesbian mother figures, serenades the story through time, as the same town residents are followed through the past, and connected in the future. The circle of mid-life swirls through generations at the mystical age of forty, and the two devoted friends look for courage, in search of their next ‘great’.
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"like the Detroit song titles that lead each chapter, this sassy story by Christine Alward, a first time novelist, is very entertaining, always moving forward and will have readers turning the pages!" “The Great Snap, Christine Alward’s debut novel, chronicles with sweet poignancy the struggles and triumphs of Nicolina, the story’s complex, irresistibly endearing protagonist. With fresh, funny, and hypnotic prose, Alward delivers a heartwarming, compelling story that hits every note, that rings with a singular, perfect pitch.”
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| About the Author | |
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Christine M. Alward began writing books for fun in childhood and promised her creative writing professor she’d be a novelist. After many years in Southern California, Christine lives a quiet life in Michigan with her three children. “The Great Snap” is her first novel. |