Been a year now since my last post. Wagered I’d revive it with a new writing venture. 🙂
Nancy Wayson Dinan’s debut magical realist novel, Things You Would Know If You Grew Up Around Here, takes place in the Texas Hill Country in 2015 when Memorial Day floods washed over the region. The floods engulf the countryside and affect the lives of three women, Boyd, Lucy Maud, and Carla, who are each grappling with inner roadblocks: Boyd’s hypersensitivity to others’ feelings, Lucy Maud’s strained relationships with her daughter, Boyd and ex-husband, Kevin, and Carla’s bouts of New Age spirituality and dependency on Lucy Maud for emotional support.
Before the rain swarms Hill Country, Boyd’s partner Isaac, who bonded with her following a panic attack inside a high school cafeteria, disappears in the night. This prompts Boyd to seek him out in the wilderness, whose mix of winds that “sounded so much like [her loved ones]” and smells “of secret life underneath the surface” doesn’t so much…
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