LOOSE IN THE BRIGHT FANTASTIC
Gray-haired Maggie flees the hospital wearing only her johnny, a mink coat, and her late husband's over-sized wingtips. She escapes into the familiar comfort of Boston's Public Garden and, as dusk settles, her past and present meld together, leading her to old haunts from tea at the Ritz, to a South End homeless squat, before invading a dinner party in the house where she'd raised her children forty years earlier. While Maggies confusion escalates, her favorite grandson Hank (AKA Major Amazing Man) in cape and mask, sets out on his own to find her, leaving his mother beyond frantic when evidence (a blood soaked johnny) says the worst has happened. |
An Unseemly Wife
Novel Available October 7, 2014
Paperback From New American Library/Penguin
Audio book from Audible http://www.audible.com/pd/Fiction/An-Unseemly-Wife-Audiobook/B00O4FEH0Q?source
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AN UNSEEMLY WIFE
Not all journeys come to an end… 1867. Ruth Holtz has more blessings than she can count—a loving husband, an abundant farm, beautiful children, and the warm embrace of the Amish community. Then, the English arrive, spreading incredible stories of free land in the West and inspiring her husband to dream of a new life in Idaho. Breaking the rules of their Order, Ruth’s husband packs up his pregnant wife and their four children and joins a wagon train heading west. Though Ruth is determined to keep separate from the English, as stricture of her faith demands, the harrowing journey soon compels her to accept help from two unlikely allies: Hortense, the preacher’s wife, and the tomboyish, teasing Sadie. But as these new friendships lead to betrayal, what started as a quest for a brighter future ends with Ruth making unthinkable sacrifices, risking faith and family and transforming into a woman she never imagined she’d become… "One of those rare novels of beauty and darkness, transfixing us with a place few can imagine and a narrator as fierce as she is true." Praise for An Unseemly Wife —Michelle Hoover, Author of The Quickening “In An Unseemly Wife, E.B. Moore takes us on what at first seems a familiar journey by covered wagon toward the American West. But Ruth Holtz is no ordinary heroine. She and her husband and young children are Amish who have broken with their Order, yet strive to remain separate from their ‘English’ fellow travelers. In that cleft lies Ruth’s darkest challenge. Navigating the wagon trail toward Idaho turns out to be easier than navigating the shifting loyalties of family and fellow travelers. Ruth’s ordeal is delivered in language so attentive, sensuous and unflinching that its brutality catches the reader unaware. An Unseemly Wife is a disquieting tale of dreams and delusions, community and separation, loyalty and betrayal. Ultimately, Ruth is a survivor among survivors: a woman who, despite the seismic shifts in her world, stands tenaciously at her own center.” — Kathryn Czepiel, Author of A Violet Season |
New Eden, A Legacy
Poetry Chapbook from Finishing Line Press 2009 E. B. Moore’s New Eden is a wonder. The story of Moore’s great-grandmother’s disastrous 19th-century exodus West from her Old Order Amish community in Pennsylvania is detailed in a sequence of short poems and letters. They miraculously take on an epic and powerfully universal quality. It is a beautifully written, intensely affecting, highly condensed version of our national hopes and disillusionments, seen through the eyes of an extraordinarily gifted poet.
—Anne Killough, Author of Beloved Idea, winner the 2008 PEN New England L. L. Winship Poetry Award |