Flood: A Memoir

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Christine is pregnant with twins and recovering from the betrayal of her husband's affair when her right breast engages in a mutiny. After delivering identical boys and a tumor on the same day, she believes the worst is over. Until the natural spring under her house- what the neighborhood kids call The Witch House- begins to rise. Intimate, heartbreaking, and hilarious, Flood is one woman's liquid desire to protect her home, her family, and herself.

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"FLOOD is a luminous reckoning with the simultaneous shocks of pregnancy, betrayal, and a harrowing diagnosis. Kalafus' chiseled prose cuts to the bone--bright, sharp, and thirst-quenching; I couldn't get enough." --Adrian Shirk, author of And Your Daughters Shall Prophesy, an NPR Best Book, and Heaven is a Place on Earth, a personal odyssey of American utopian experiments

"FLOOD is an exquisite and, at times, harrowing examination of the world of cancer--and by world, I mean the 360-degree of a disease as seen through the medical establishment, the intimates and, most importantly, by the survivor, herself." --Michael Klein, Lambda Award Winning Author of When I was a Twin

"Kalafus bears witness to the medicalization of the female body through a lens both intimate and wise. Peppered with the author's raw humor and frank admissions of doubt, this remarkable story is ultimately one of profound dignity and strength." --Danielle Pieratti, Winner of the Connecticut Book Award and author of Approximate Body

Author Bio

Lauded by Publisher's Weekly as "reassuringly honest and entertaining," Christine's award-winning writing has appeared in The Culture We Deserve, Longreads, The New Guard, and The Connecticut Literary Anthology, among many other places. "I've Heard You Make Cakes," recorded before a live audience at Laugh Boston, was broadcast by The Moth Radio Hour on New York's WNYC. Christine lives in Pomfret, Connecticut with her husband and Virginia Woof- their Springer spaniel- in an old farmhouse that needs her.