2 Greenwood authors have new books

by | Mar 5, 2015

Pieces_of_Home_Cover-resizedGreenwood author and poet A. B. McFarland has just published her first novel, “Pieces of Home,” which is set in Seattle.

Pieces of Home is about a young hermit who loses her Seattle home in a fire and ends up staying with a family she barely knows. Still reeling from her divorce and the loss of her restaurant business, and with no trusted family to fall back on, she goes to stay with her classmate Iya Forsythe and his eccentric relatives. She soon finds herself intensely curious about the puzzling Forsythe family, headed by Orvie and his brother, Marlow. Thrust into the role of part-time parent to an eleven-year-old girl with anger management issues and a fourteen-year-old boy hung up on the contents of a jar in his desk drawer, Skye begins to find the strength to cope with her estranged brother, while picking up the pieces of her own life. Written in the form of a diary, Pieces of Home takes an honest but humorous look at the emotional factors that lead to homelessness, violence and trauma in families.

McFarland says Couth Buzzard Books at 8310 Greenwood Ave. N. has a few copies of “Pieces of Home” on consignment. The book also is available on Amazon.
And another Greenwood author, Deborah Bacharach, will read from her new book of poetry, “After I Stop Lying,” from 2-4 p.m. Sunday, March 15, at the Greenwood Branch, 8016 Greenwood Ave. N.

Bacharach is a poet and essayist and has been published in over 100 journals nationwide. She was the 2015 Poetry on Buses featured poet for the week of Jan. 26, and was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Bacharach is a freelance writing consultant who lives in the Greenwood neighborhood with her partner and two children.

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