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About the Book
Fifteen-year-old Mary Donahue of suburban Chicago is a kid on the cusp of failure during the brutal blizzard winter of 1978-79, the end of a hard luck, hard rock era sunk in the cynical aftermath of the Vietnam War.
Though a smart, beautiful kid, she’s a motherless girl raised by an uneducated, alcoholic father within an extended family of alcoholics and addicts. Aware that she’s sinking, she’s desperate to save herself and so reaches out to an unlikely source, Kathleen, a nice, normal kid from English class.
But when the real storm hits, the full force of a harsh adult world almost buries Mary. Only then does she learn that the only difference between life and death is knowing when to grasp an extended hand.
About the Author
Martha Engber is the author of WINTER LIGHT, the 2021 IPPY Gold Medal Winner in Young Adult Fiction. Her other books include THE WIND THIEF, a literary novel, and GROWING GREAT CHARACTERS FROM THE GROUND UP. Her memoir, BLISS ROAD, will be published by Vine Leaves Press June 6, 2023.
A freelance editor and workshop facilitator, she’s had a play produced in Hollywood and fiction, poetry and essays published in Watchword, the Berkeley Fiction Review, Iconoclast and other literary magazines. She received her Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Missouri — Columbia before working as a freelance reporter for the Chicago Tribune, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and other national publications.
She lives in California with her husband, where she bikes, hikes and surfs when not writing, trying new recipes and reading. She appreciates a wide variety of books and has a penchant for poetry; memoirs of all styles; literary and historical novels; and enlightening nonfiction, and neurological research in particular.
Links
Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3TpC0sr
Barnes and Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/winter-light-martha-engber/1137293647?ean=9781925965445
Bookshop US: https://bookshop.org/a/25511/9781925965445
Amazon UK: https://amzn.eu/d/8MUanWJ
Waterstones: https://www.waterstones.com/book/winter-light/martha-engber/9781925965445
Bookshop UK: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/winter-light-martha-engber/2392730?ean=9781925965445
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54672571-winter-light
Author Website: https://www.marthaengber.com/
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