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Publisher: Buddhapuss Ink LLC
Release date: 2015
ISBN13: 978-1941523049
Finalist, 2016 Sarton Women’s Book Award
Finalist, 2016 Eric Hoffer Award for Fiction
Finalist, 2016 Reader’s Choice Award, Women’s Fiction
Finalist, 2016 Best Book Awards, Women’s Fiction
New Apple Official Selection Award for Excellence
Honorable Mention: Great Midwest Book Festival
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Review in MER by Bunny Goodjohn
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?
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.
PRAISE:
“With tenderness, but without blinking, Linda K. Sienkiewicz turns her eye on the predator-prey savannah of the young and still somehow hopeful.”
—Jacquelyn Mitchard, #1 NY Times Bestselling Author, author of Deep End of the Ocean
“Sienkiewicz’s powerful and richly detailed debut 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 Jo Campbell, author of National Book Award Finalist American Salvage, and National Bestseller, The Waters
“Absorbing, heartbreaking, compulsively readable and insightful, Linda Sienkiewicz’s In the Context of Love casts a hypnotic spell. This is storytelling at its best.”
—Lewis Robinson, author of The Islanders
“In her dynamic first novel, Linda K. Sienkiewicz 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. Linda K. Sienkiewicz is a wise, vivid and vital new voice in fiction.”
—Elizabeth Searle, author of the Boston Globe Bestseller, A Four-Sided Bed
“In the Context of Love is a lovely book. Linda Sienkiewicz has written a love letter to the wonder and imperfection of everyday life.”
—Marcy Dermansky, author of critically acclaimed novels, Very Nice and Hurricane Girl