Jessica Harmon Has Stepped Away

<p>Jessica Harmon has spent her life in an emotional tug-of-war-yearning for her mother's attention while bracing for the rejection that always followed.</p><p></p><p>At thirty Jessica's love life is a wreck her confidence is shot and she's adrift in New York City stuck editing other people's novels at a vanity press while too paralyzed to write her own. She blames her failure to launch on the woman who raised her: Cynthia Harmon a legendary poet and scholar who dazzles her students and readers alike...but leaves her only child cold.</p><p></p><p>When Cynthia wins yet another major literary award and asks her daughter to assist her on the book tour Jessica decides to give their relationship one last chance. When a crisis upends Cynthia's triumphant moment the power dynamic begins to shift between the two women and cracks start to show in the story Jessica has always been told-about her mother her family and herself.</p><p></p><p><em>Jessica Harmon Has Stepped Away</em> is a sharp emotionally layered novel about mothers and daughters long-held secrets and understanding where we come from so we can choose who we become.</p>