Brooklyn Thomas Isn't Here

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Her best friend is missing, her career is a disaster, shes stuck living with her parents, and now her heart isnt beating.

Can Brooklyn Thomas confront her past to save her present

Summer is off to a bad start and getting worse. Brooklyn Thomas is pretty sure shes mostly dead. She cant feel her heart beat and shes disappearing: her reflection keeps vanishing from mirrors. No one else seems to notice. Not her coworkers at the artisanal doughnut shop she works at after failing at her high-paying marketing job. Not her crush, whom she keeps humiliating herself in front of. Not her parents, whose basement suite shes stuck living in now that she cant afford rent anymore. To top it all off, shes hallucinating stars from all her favorite TV shows who want Brooklyn to pull herself together and face the truth about what happened to her career, her best friend, and her relationship with her brother.

As her past collides with her present in painful and unexpected ways, Brooklyn must decide if shes strong enough to confront what haunts her and get a second chance at a real lifebefore mostly dead turns into actually dead.

Brooklyn Thomas Isnt Here explores how women contort and minimize themselves to fit the roles society and family offer them, and the serious price they pay for doing so.

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An honest, compelling page-turner.a thought provoking read from an author with an experienced hand and an incredible depth of understanding for what women can experience in a mans world. -- Stella Harvey, Author ofFinding Callidora& Founder, Whistler Writers Festival
With vivid prose and a heroine to root for,Brooklyn Thomas Isnt Hereis a clever take on the ways women change shape to fit into society. Part existential study and part feminist rally cry, Alli Vails incisive debut is a reminder that it is never too late for a second chance at life. -- Holly James, Author ofNothing but the Truth"In Brooklyn Thomas Isnt Here, the unreal becomes real and the surreal works in a donut shop. This thought-provoking story about a woman who exhibits key signs of being dead while she struggles to find whatever it is that makes life worth living is a twisted tale about fitting in, speaking up, grief, love and obsession. Alli Vail is definitely here, and shes a fiercely imaginative new voice in Canadian fiction." -- Katherine Fawcett, The Swan Suit, The Little Washer of Sorrows

Author Bio

Alli Vail is a former journalist for national and provincial award-winning community newspapers. She is a content writer and marketer for literary festivals and nonprofits, and has worked in tech, video games, and politics. Shes happy shes no longer the only woman in work meetings. She studied creative writing at Simon Fraser University.

Alli lives in Vancouver, Canada with her anxious dog (who she wrote about for The Globe and Mail) and her partner.