Ilana has an enviable job at the opera house, a committed relationship, and a cozy Greenwich Village apartment, but the questions inside of her are growing insistent. Is it due to her scientist boyfriend's research on how people make their decisions, or is she suffering suppressed grief from the death of her adoptive mother?
She becomes curious about who she would be if she'd grown up in her birth home. Is she truly who she thinks she is? Has she ever freely chosen anything at all? When Ilana learns that her birth mom owns a pub upstate, well, what harm could there be in furtively dropping by for a drink? To see, just to see.
What begins as curiosity about her choices evolves into a traumatic shift in her world. She loses control of her life. And then, chaos.
Advance Praise
"Deborah Serra can spin a tale - every character jumps off the page. Ilana's journey, an accomplished young woman trying to figure out who she is - is compelling, unexpected, and also heartbreaking. This novel captured me." -Delia Ephron, author of Left on Tenth
"A profound and skillfully written novel of lives inexorably changed by truth-seeking, and the power of love and forgiveness." -Elizabeth St. John, critically acclaimed, award-winning author of The Lydiard Chronicles
"So smart! Great characters. You'll read to the end of the story and be surprised by what she decides. What you do next with your own life is up to you...or is it?"-Lawrence Kasanoff, Film ProducerTrue Lies, President, Threshold Entertainment, Production Manager, Platoon, Dirty Dancing
Deborah is a double Hawthornden Literary Fellow who has worked in all genres and mediums. She has had a career as a produced screenwriter, she has two published books with a third to be published by Koehler Books in 2024. She has written three award winning plays.
Her essays and short stories have appeared in several literary magazines, and she was nominated for the O. Henry Award. She is currently an editor at After Dinner Conversation- Philosophy/Ethics Short Story Magazine.
Deborah lives in San Diego with her family. She travels exotically and extensively and spends quite a bit of time in New York City.
Serra has been published in literary magazines and is an editor with the ethics and short story magazine, After Dinner Conversation. Serra, who is based in San Diego, is the author of the thriller, Primal, a story originally purchased by one of America’s most prestigious storytellers James Cameron, and the humorous travel memoir, 2 Broads Abroad.
She has written numerous TV films and episodes, including two years as a staff writer. She has worked for Showtime, CBS, NBC, Sony, Fox, and Lifetime, and is a member of WGA, DG, and PEN USA.
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