YOUR MOTHER, MY FATHER - WIP INTRO
"When the police informed me that Dad was found dead in a parking garage with – my brain filled in the sentence, pictured Sasha’s limp body curled up in the driver’s seat. It would only be fitting for Dad to die next to his best friend, the two of them fossilized into perfect amber cartridges by the warm cradle of the car’s heat."
Your Mother, My Father is a literary fiction novel about grief, queerness, and soda.
current word count = 13k
expected final word count = 60k-ish
blurb = Robert Peace and Miranda Smyth are found dead together in the front seats of a running car: overdosed peacefully in their sleep, serenaded by the radio, snow falling outside the parking garage.
But their relationship is a mystery, and so are the final moments before their deaths -- the task falls upon Petra, the estranged only child of Robert, and Ryan, the only member of Miranda's family to truly understand her.
Petra and Ryan recount the end of their parents' lives, their complicated familial pasts, and the decades worth of hidden trauma and history that united the two in secret -- until death did they part.
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