Greetings everyone,
I hope this finds you well and preparing for the July 4th holiday, despite the work this country still needs to do to rebuild our democracy and to dismantle the tyranny of the current administration and its draconian policies. I believe in the America that both sets of my grandparents, one from Ecuador and the other from Italy, embraced and in which they built lives for their children.
As time passes, I’ve come to realize that in one way or another, I write about families, and in particular, the complexities of mother-daughter relationships. In her brilliant review of my legal thriller, The Boulevard Trial, on North of Oxford Press yesterday, poet Karen Corinne Herceg observes, “But the deepest, most introspective examination of relationships for the female characters is the link to their mothers, their controversial and emotional maternal inheritances. The mother and daughter connections are explored quite well in a multitude of ways yet ultimately emphasize the similarities of the various dynamics.”
I hope that this July 4th, we can remember the vital importance of keeping families together. The impact of trauma on children separated from their families will, unfortunately, last a lifetime. May all children be reunited with their families and America have mercy on its own future.
As a last note, if you are in Boston, I’ll be a featured reader at the Dire Reader Series on Saturday, July 7th in Cambridge at the Middle East club at 3pm. I plan to read some of my newly published poetry and perhaps an excerpt from The Boulevard Trial. Many thanks to author Tim Gager for inviting me to feature.
May we all find strength, activism, and healing through Art.
Love,
Stephanie
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