Lisbeth - Softcover

Brown, Marina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1596165308 ISBN 13: 9781596165304

Publisher: Southern Yellow Pine (SYP) Publishing LLC, 2017

Synopsis

Can the quest for revenge remain alive after death?

On Buena Vista, a small Mississippi property, Claire Elliston finds herself compelled to rebuild the house her mother inhabited forty years before. The past and its evils come alive as the ruins are disturbed, laying bare the sins of a time when Jim Crow ruled the South, when depravity took place behind lace curtains, and when biracial love could get you killed.

The unexplained arrival of a German doctor in the small community breaks open the past’s layered secrets as Claire is torn between two allegiances—and perhaps two personalities. Dotted with colorfully naughty Southern humor, this strange saga leaps time and place as a black and a white family discover their shared need for retribution and their capacity for fidelity and love.

About this title

About the Author:

Marina Brown was born in Indianapolis. She has written for newspapers and magazines for the last twenty years: St. Petersburg Times, Tallahassee Democrat, Florida Design, Dance Magazine, Tallahassee Magazine, and Sailing Magazine among them. She is the recipient of numerous writing awards, including the Lorian Hemingway Second Place Award for Short Stories, First Place in the Red Hills Poetry Contest, and the 2013 Florida Authors and Publisher's Gold Medal Award in Adult Fiction for her debut novel, Land Without Mirrors. Marina is a former ballet dancer, sailor, a figurative watercolorist, and a cellist. She lives in Tallahassee, Florida.

Review:

"The pages seem to turn themselves in this incredibly readable tale of the deep South and its culture. A prodigious and beautifully written accomplishment!"—Henry M. Steele, M. Div, Activist and son of Civil Rights icon, C. K. Steele.

"Thoroughly captivating and heart-wrenching...as a midlife woman seeks pieces of her own story in the web of relationships woven through the past and present. A brilliant achievement you won't be able to put down."—Anne Barrett, PhD, Professor and Director of the Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy, Florida State University.

"A wonderfully-wrought tale of love and yearning, darkness and redemption in which Lisbeth remains an abiding enigma whose secrets ensnare two families long after her passing. Equally gothic and ghost story, but so much more, Lisbeth is a compelling mystery, a love story, and a modern morality tale told in Brown's lyrically beautiful prose."—Claire Matturro, author of the award-winning Skinny-dipping and Sweetheart Deal.

About this edition

• Publisher: Southern Yellow Pine (SYP) Publishing LLC
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1596165308
• ISBN 13: 9781596165304
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 292