Wondrous Strange

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Colleen has lived her entire life at the edges-present but never quite </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>there</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>. When her hollow marriage ends she flees to the stark beauty of Southern Colorado hoping her Ute grandmother's homeland might finally offer belonging.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>What she finds instead: Hannah a weaver who sees too much. Ivy who remembers her grandmother and the old medicine ways. Krystyl surviving her own trauma. Tiffany whose unborn daughter needs protecting. Women who recognize what Colleen has spent forty years hiding from herself.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>When she encounters a traumatic event the truth Colleen buried at age five begins clawing its way to the surface. In EMDR therapy through visions of ancient ancestors and the fierce love of women who refuse to let her disappear Colleen must finally face what her cousin did-and learn what it means to live fully awake in her own body for the first time.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>A luminous novel about childhood sexual abuse dissociation and the long road home to yourself-infused with magical realism and set against the haunting landscape of the American Southwest.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>For readers of</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> The Mermaid Chair </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>and</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> Beloved.</span></p><p></p>