52 Weeks a Party of One

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>★</span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>WINNER: </strong><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><u>2024 DBT Literary Awards</u></em><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> First Place: Contemporary Fiction</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Aisha isn't known to hold her tongue but that's until she finds out her boyfriend and her best friend are having an affair on New Year's Eve.</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)> This sends her packing. She leaves Denver and moves to Dallas to have the time and space to process the betrayal.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Spending time alone also spotlights other issues she has been trying to conceal: her broken relationship with her mother her growing apart from her brother and the impact of her late absentee father on her life.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Aisha is overwhelmed by everything so instead of using her time away to do the work she spends weeks putting it off and indulging in every possible distraction-until she hits a wall.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Aisha will have to either confront the ghosts from her past before the year ends or continue to pretend they aren't there and let them haunt her until the very end.</strong></p>