Synopsis
Hair of a Fallen Angel is a sharp-eyed, funny tall tale about an age old longing to escape small town life to become someone bigger. We follow adventures of the marvelous Janelle who is pretty amazing right where she is. I couldn’t wait to see what would happen next in this rollicking, smart novel.
Alice Elliott Dark, author of Fellowship Point
Meet Janelle, a girl with flame-red hair and singing chops who rides an old Schwinn, lives in a ramshackle house with a mosquito problem and takes up with the crocodile brawler, Stevie-J and his magenta Corvette. It’s a high stakes twosome for a girl who cuts toenails in a barber shop and sees herself as invisible as corn waiting to be shucked from the husk. Tepper’s alluringly visceral prose engages the reader’s senses—the heat and honeysuckle, the stickiness of waffles topped with ice cream. Ready for a date with destiny shinier than a karaoke bar, Tepper’s Janelle, the girl who never thought big, is a joyous creature whose light illuminates the novel’s darker corners.
Stephanie Dickinson,
author of Blue Swan Black Swan: The Trakl Diaries
Susan Isla Tepper has the gift of empathy and insight into disparate lives. And she further has the gift of being able to illuminate those lives with sharp, emphatic prose. In this new book she employs unflinching bravery and a clear-eyed honesty that makes this working-class, first-person voice compelling. It’s literary seduction. I’d follow her struggling musician protagonist anywhere.
Corey Mesler, author of Memphis Movie and The World is Neither Stacked For Nor Against You: Selected Short Stories
This new work by Susan Isla Tepper blends humor with pure soul in a truly eloquent manner. Her novel is a prime example of true dedication to the craft. She manages to show the side of life where one can be down on their luck, yet still reflecting hope with a biting sarcastic edge. No mistaking Tepper is an artist of the highest level.
John Patrick Robbins, Editor In Chief, The Rye Whiskey Review
Hair of a Fallen Angel is a humorous, delicious romp, start to finish. Packed with whacky, well-drawn characters, ingenious plot twists, and unexpected pathos, this brilliant, quirky novel both moved and delighted me. I didn’t want it to end. Fingers crossed Tepper is writing a sequel. I can’t wait!
Alexis Rhone Fancher, author of Brazen, Triggered, and The Dead Kid Poems
About the Author
Susan Isla Tepper has been a writer for twenty plus years and is the author of eleven published books of fiction and poetry, and five Stage Plays. She writes in all genres, and is published extensively worldwide. Tepper received a Pulitzer Prize Nomination for the Novel What May Have Been (adapted for the stage and re-titled The Crooked Heart, premiered in a staged-reading at the Irish Repertory Theatre, NYC, on October 25, 2022.) Other honors include winner in the Francis Ford Coppola Zoetrope Contest for the Novel (2003), Second Place in Story/South Million Writers Award, Best Story of 17 Years of Vestal Review-the longest continually running flash fiction magazine in America. Many of her works have been performed onstage. "Deer" the title story of her collection DEER & Other Stories (2009) was initially published at American Letters & Commentary, and went on to be performed at Inter/Act Theatre's "Writing Aloud" in Philadelphia, as well as NPR's Selected Shorts. She created and hosted FIZZ a popular reading series at KGB Bar, NYC, which ran for a decade and showcased the talents of our literary stars as well as many first time authors. Before settling down to the writing life, Susan Isla Tepper has worked as an actor, singer, flight attendant, Cable TV producer, airline marketing manager, interior designer, overseas tour guide, rescue worker and more. She blames it all on a high interest range. Tepper is a native New Yorker.
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