Surviving Amelia

<p><strong style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Imagine a forty-year-old Amelia Earhart in New York City in 1980.</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Amelia Earhart is lost on an island in the Pacific in 1937 yet finds herself resurrected in her sister Muriel's study just outside of Boston in 1980. Seventy-nine-year-old Muriel is reeling from the double loss of a son and a husband as she copes with growing old alone. Seventeen-year old Sam Barry winner of the Amelia Earhart Scholarship is just beginning her life as a coed trying her best to separate from her needy mother and her dysfunctional family.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Their lives intersect in surprising ways as long buried secrets come to light revealing the special powerful intimacy women share whether they are siblings best friends or mothers and daughters.</span></p><p><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Surviving Amelia</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> is a magic realist novel set in a brave new world where fame is fleeting and flight mundane but one thing is unchanged. It's love. Love in all its complexities endures.</span></p>