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Secrets - A Novel - Book 1
Paperback
Series: Secrets, Book 1
Publisher: Jo Ann Lordahl
Published: Feb 1 2024
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Secrets: A Novel is Book One in Jo Ann Lordahl's Secrets Series, a raw, introspective work of literary women's fiction about memory, survival, and the long reach of the past.
Antonia Martin grew up on a hardscrabble Southern farm where fire was both danger and refuge: the family fireplace, a near-fatal blaze she set as a child, and the harsh discipline of a mother who found a strange satisfaction in punishing her. Decades later, grown and living in Florida and Louisiana, Antonia is undone by grief for Catlin, a brilliant, complicated literary mentor and lover modeled loosely on a real giant of American letters. His death forces her back into the journals she has kept for years, where childhood trauma, sexual longing, and an unflinching reckoning with mortality all surface at once.
This is not a tidy redemption story. It is a frank, sometimes uncomfortable, deeply human account of abuse, desire, loss, and the slow work of self-reclamation, told in the voice of a woman determined to understand herself on her own terms.
Followed by Wolf World, Book Two in the Secrets Series.
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