2016 Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist in Commercial Fiction
2016 Sarton Women’s Book Awards Finalist
2016 Reader’s Choice Finalist in Women’s Fiction
2016 USA Book News “Best Book” Finalist in Women’s Fiction
2017 New Apple Official Selection Award for Excellence
An intensely charged story about family secrets, love and lust.
What makes us step back to examine the events and people that have shaped our lives? And what happens when what we discover leads to more questions? In the Context of Love, contemporary fiction by Linda K. Sienkiewicz, revolves around the journey of Angelica Schirrick as she reevaluates her life, and its direction.
Angelica wonders how her life could have gotten so far off-track. With her husband in jail and two children in tow, she begins a journey of self-discovery that leads her back home to Ohio. She remembers her forbidden romance with Joe Vadas, the son of Hungarian immigrants. Scandal tore them apart and he mysteriously disappeared. As she struggled to recover from the split, the discovery of a devastating family secret shattered her sense of self and divided her parents.
Can she face the failures and secrets of her past and move forward? Can she find love and purpose again? Only when she learns to accept the violence of her beginning can she be open to life again, and a second chance at love.
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“Sienkiewicz’s powerful and richly detailed novel is at once a love story, a cautionary tale and an inspirational journey. In the Context of Love should be required reading for all wayward teenage girls—and their mothers too.” ~Bonnie Joe Campbell, author of National Book Award Finalist American Salvage, and National Bestseller, Once Upon a River, and Michigan Notable Book The Waters
“Absorbing, heartbreaking, compulsively-readable and insightful, In the Context of Love casts a hypnotic spell. This is story-telling at its best.” ~Lewis Robinson, author of Officer Friendly and Other Stories, Water Dogs and The Islanders.
“Takes you on a wild roller coaster ride through love’s lowest lows and highest highs, from dark acts of sexual violence to kisses that taste like freedom. In her boldly compelling narrative, Sienkiewicz captures her heroine’s harrowing journey with both compassion and passion… a wise and vital new voice in fiction.” ~Elizabeth Searle, author of the Boston Globe bestseller A Four-Sided Bed
“Sienkiewicz has written a love letter to the wonder and imperfection of everyday life.” Marcy Dermansky, author of the critically acclaimed novels Very Nice and Hurricane Girl.
“With tenderness but without blinking, Sienkiewicz turns her eye on the predator-prey savannah of the young and still somehow hopeful.” Jacquelyn Mitchard, New York Times #1 Bestselling Author