The Inextinguishable Dream (now available here)

An artist in an unhappy marriage must stop her daughter from uncovering devastating family secrets as she fights to save her mathematician sister from a desperate obsession.

My debut literary/upmarket novel, THE INEXTINGUISHABLE DREAM, is a multiple point of view novel narrated by a mother, a daughter, and a house.

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Artist Sylvia and her mathematician sister Cass have never agreed on how to live. Sylvia longed for a baby. Cass gave hers away. Sylvia stays in a painful marriage, while Cass vows to stay footloose. Where they overlap is in their unshakeable belief that they must create lasting work—Sylvia welds iron sculptures, Cass solves equations to simplify the world. Together they struggle to maintain the precarious balance of their lives with Sylvia’s husband and her thirteen-year-old daughter, Erika, in the crumbling Blue House they’ve shared for years—until Cass disappears.

Her marriage failing, her sister missing, and her daughter getting dangerously close to uncovering the devastating truths about their family, Sylvia fights to keep her world from collapsing. But then she is drawn into a life-altering affair and a pregnancy that test her deepest commitments—and ultimately, her sanity. 

When the secrets of Blue House finally come to light, Erika commits an extraordinary act of destruction and Sylvia must face her delusions in order to survive.

Drawing from the physics of time and calling up the voice of an old house, my novel offers unique perspectives on motherhood and love, ambition and loss, and the overpowering human desire to escape into delusions.

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One science thread which is woven into my novel is the arrow of time which drives relentless change and the decay of all forms, including human lives and identities. Is life a story? Is life composed of moments? How does a life break down?