Minus Me by Mameve Medwed
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AUTHOR BIO
Mameve Medwed is the author of six novels—Mail, Host
Family, The End of an Error, How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life
(2007 Massachusetts Book Award Honors in Fiction), Of Men and Their Mothers,
and Minus Me (coming January 2021). Her short stories, essays, and book
reviews have appeared in, among others, The New York Times, Gourmet, Yankee,
Redbook, Playgirl, The Boston Globe, Ascent, The Missouri Review,
Confrontation, The Readerville Journal, Newsday, and The Washington Post.
She has taught fiction writing for many years at The Cambridge Center for Adult
Education, has been a mentor in the writing program at Lesley University, read
papers for the English Department at Simmons College, and has taken part in
writing festivals across the country, serving on panels and teaching seminars.
She has been interviewed on Maine Public Radio, The Voice of America and other
radio and TV programs and has been profiled in many newspapers.
Born in Bangor, Maine, where she is considered Bangor’s
other writer (Stephen King holds the title!), she resides in Cambridge.
ABOUT MINUS ME
Her life turned upside down by a grim diagnosis, a small-town
Maine woman sets about writing a "How To" life manual for her
handsome yet hapless husband in a novel Elinor Lipman (Good Riddance, On
Turpentine Lane) calls "smart, funny-quirky, and so very satisfying."
Annie and her devoted but comically incompetent childhood
sweetheart Sam are the owners and operators of Annie's, a gourmet sandwich
shop, home to the legendary Paul Bunyan Special Sandwich--their
"nutritionally challenged continual source of income and marital harmony
and local fame."
But into their mostly charmed marriage comes the scary
medical diagnosis for Annie--and the overwhelming challenge of finding a way to
help Sam go on without her. Annie decides to leave Sam step-by-step
instructions for a future without her, and considers her own replacement in his
heart and their bed. Her best-laid plans grind to a halt with the unexpected
appearance of Ursula, Annie's Manhattan diva of a mother, who brings her own
brand of chaos and disruption into their lives.
Minus Me is a poignant and hilarious novel about the bonds
of marriage, the burdens of maternal love, and the courage to face mortality,
"with an ending readers will cherish (Caroline Leavitt, Pictures of You)."
"Medwed's lovely novel of marriage, motherhood, love
and loss is so real that at times it feels like non-fiction. It's a timely
reminder that in the worst of times, we sometimes rediscover the very best of
ourselves." --Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of A
Spark of Light
Book link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B088F2JFXR
Author website: https://mamevemedwed.com/
Author contact:
MameveWrites@gmail.com
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