Che and the Calaway Girls

(Paperback)

Publishing Details

Classifications

Physical Properties

Description

As Hurricane Che cuts a swathe through the Gulf, Julia Calaway, a clothing designer for a famous Italian fashion house, prepares for the storms impact. Together with her daughter, nine-year-old Gracie, Juliaintends to hunker down and ride out the storm in her childhood home in Houstona house which has survived years of hurricanes and witnessed years of violence and desolation, dark secrets that continue to haunt the Calaway sisters. As the coast braces for destruction, Julias dying father is thrown out of his nursing home and delivered to her doorstep, her abusive ex-husband commits an act of violent vandalism, and her estranged sister confides a terrible secret that sheds further light on their childhood trauma.

Author Bio

Nora Seton studied Classics and Art History at Harvard, and received a MS in Agricultural Economics from Texas A&M. She is the author of several nonfiction books, short stories, book reviews, and poetry. Che and the Calaway Girls is her first novel. She lives in Houston, Texas.