Description: ReverendSarah Obadias is broken, bitter, and stripped of the reassurance of faith whenshe walks into a West Village restaurant in Manhattan. Here she encountersAbraham Darby, a rumpled but well-regarded painter who seduces the ministerinto his life of excess and emotional intensity. "I've run away from my life,"Sarah tells him. "I know," Darby replies. "Take mine." But for Sarah, each daywith the artist will bring a new realityor lack of itespecially after shemeets Darby's gay son Yago. Bloodlines become squiggled and unreliable as the charactersexplore father-son relationships and what constitutes a family.
Brief description:
Georgeann Packard is a writer, graphic designer, and photographer. She also designs and installs gardens on Long Island's North Fork, where she lives with her family. Her first novel, Fall Asleep Forgetting, was a finalist for two Lambda Literary Awards in 2010.
Review Quotes:
"The story reads like a prose poem--emotional significance comes across in the sparsely told daily machinations of the lives of a few intentionally but tenuously connected New Yorkers...Packard weaves a dreamy yet well-paced narrative with richly developed characters who gradually come to discover that life is always going on--whether they're watching or not."
-- "Publishers Weekly"