Publication date: September 29th 2013
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult
(Goodreads)
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult
(Goodreads)
Willie has always lived an
unconventional life. Surrounded by the sensual, ethereal images of her
artist-mother, she fantasizes about the half-wolf, half-human, but all-gorgeous
face that stares out at her from her mother’s wall, and drinks in her mother’s
stories of past lovers and adventures. She shares her home with a man who calls
himself “uncle” (who stalks her through the house, naked). Her closest friends
are a band of misfits who’ve forged their own way in life-including Xavier, who
has carved his name in her soul- and her heart is torn between him and a
college professor, a fellow artist who wants more than a student-teacher
relationship.
Willie stands on the brink of womanhood
poised to follow in her mother’s footsteps, with a gleaming future as an artist
looming before her, and a maturity beyond her years that has enabled her to be
the protector and caretaker of others, a mender of wounds. But as a devastating
illness rips her mother from her life, Willie is left bereft of a home and of a
sense of self. Guided only by her instincts, Willie wanders from her
Professor’s arms to the home that Xavier shares with his live-in girlfriend
Nicole (who insists that they can “share”). Her path becomes a search for
peace, for family, for a love that’s real, and for her place in this world.
Finding What Is
chronicles the journey that we all must take-to find ourselves, to reconcile
our past, and to get back to that place we once called home.
