Sign-In
Cart
I Hear Sirens
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781499377408
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 27 2014
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Annie O'Connell, the director of a local art gallery, hasn't had time to work on her own paintings since her father's death-no, since her father's illness. Her oldest daughter going away to college was supposed to free up more of her time for painting, but she still hasn't picked up a paintbrush-or allowed herself to grieve her losses.
Annie's numbness begins to unravel fast when she realizes that she has been inattentive not just to her painting, but to her marriage as well. Hoping to fix things with Howie by bonding during their yearly family vacation, she and the kids are blindsided when they discover that Howie has been having an affair.
On the verge of a nervous breakdown, Annie chooses to focus on the one thing that is entirely up to her: her painting. Turning her once-meticulous living room into a raging art studio, she begins to taste a freedom she never knew existed.
Navigating the ups and downs of grief, marriage, parenthood, and artistic expression, I Hear Sirens offers an honest and sometimes humorous look at the courage, love, and patience required to embrace life in all its complexities.
Also in
General Fiction
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (Loa #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
Spencer, Elizabeth
Hardcover
Anniversaries, Volume 2: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, April 1968-August 1968
Johnson, Uwe
Paperback
Philip Roth: Novels 1973-1977 (Loa #165): The Great American Novel / My Life as a Man / The Professor of Desire
Roth, Philip
Hardcover
Selected Writings: Robert Musil: Young Torless, Three Women, the Perfecting of a Love, and Other Writings
Agee, Joel
Musil, Robert
Paperback
Before Gatsby: The First Twenty-Six Stories
Bruccoli, Matthew J.
Baughman, Judith
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Paperback