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Critically acclaimed author Sylvia Brownrigg’s memoir reconstructs a poignant story of fathers lost and found, and of children rebuilding bridges burned by their own parentsWhen Sylvia Brownrigg received a package addressed to her father that had been lost for over fifty years, she wanted to deliver it to him before it was too late. She did not expect that her father, Nick, would choose not to open it, so she and her brother finally did.Nick, ...

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‘Intimate and insightful’ Mail on Sunday‘Compelling . . . a beautiful testament to human complexity’ Claire MessudMarried to a somewhat overbearing artist and defined by her roles as wife and mother, Flannery Jansen feels like she’s lost all sense of who she once was. But then she receives an invitation that will change everything. It promises to reunite Flannery with Anne Arden, a woman she hasn’t seen for twenty years, and suddenly memories ...

A woman travels to seven "invisible" countries, and from the moment of arrival she is surprised, challenged, and disturbed by what she discovers.

Publicity Widespread outreach to librarians and LGBTQ book clubs Coverage in literary (Paris Review online, New Yorker online) and LGTBQ-focused blogs (OUT) along with local radio coverage (KQED Forum) Author promotion through personal website http://www.sylviabrownrigg.com/

In a steam-filled diner in a college town, 17-year-old Flannery Jansen meets a remote, brilliant older woman who soon becomes her idol. A bittersweet, sentimental education, "Pages for You" confirms Sylvia Brownrigg as "one of the most exuberantly agile minds among younger American writers" (Dan Cryer, "Newsday").

‘Candid, fresh and vivid’ Sunday Telegraph‘Bathed in a joyful, cloistered mood of sensual celebration’ New York TimesWhen Flannery Jansen arrives at university, she is totally unprepared for an encounter that will rock her existence. But when she comes across Anne Arden in a local diner, Flannery falls dramatically and desperately in love. Flannery is quickly embarrassed in the face of the older woman’s poise and sophistication, and under the ...

Flannery Jansen betritt eine neue Welt. Sie ist Erstsemesterin an einer Universität an der Ostküste. Eines Morgens entdeckt sie in einem Diner beim Campus eine faszinierende Frau, die in ein Buch vertieft ist: Anne Arden, Dozentin im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - selbstbewusst, lebenserfahren, weltgewandt. Und in Flannerys Augen die schönste Frau der Welt. Flannery träumt Tag und Nacht von Anne. Sie verzehrt sich nach ihr. Sie geht ihr a...

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1 of 100 Best Books of 2017 (San Francisco Chronicle) One of 2017's Best Fiction Books (Kirkus) "Sharp observations about motherhood and womanhood . . . Audacious, confident, smart, seductive." -The New York Times Book Review Pages for Her is the story of two women, Flannery and Anne, each at a personal turning point, and the circumstances that lead to their reunion. Twenty years after their brief but passionate affair, chronicled in Sylvia B...

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Complex and deeply human, "The Delivery Room" is an engaging examination of the incomplete understandings that course between therapist and patient. Mira Braveman listens to the stories of her troubled patients and discovers she is not as distant from their pain as she might once have been.

When this novel's unnamed narrator meets the elusive but exciting Richard (an envelope salesman with a nice layman's line in Zen philosophies), he offers her a friendly escape from her dreary domestic life. Burdened by her husband's ongoing negotiations with his angry ex-wife, the strains of looking after two stepchildren, and the lingering ghost of her own past betrayals, she finds that the life of a "second marryer" leaves much to be desired...

Morality Tale is a novel about the triangular complications of a modern marriage and the comedy that flows from them. When the elusive but exciting Richard (an envelope salesman with a nice layperson's line in Zen philosophies) meets this novel's narrator, he offers her a friendly escape from her own daunting domestic life. Burdened by her husband's ongoing negotiations with his angry ex-wife, the strains of looking after two stepchildren, and...

An unusual, lyrical love story