Shelter of Leaves: A Novel

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On Memorial Day, a series of bomb explosions shuts down major cities across the US. Her apartment in ruins, Sabine flees Washington DC and begins a grueling journey on foot that brings her to West Virginia, where she finds safety at an abandoned farmhouse with other refugees.

For Sabine, family is a vague memoryshe cant even remember her last name. Without an identity, she hidesalthough thirty-five, she pretends to be twenty-eight, even to the refugee she falls in love with. But Sabine wants to recover her identity. Despite gangs, bombings, riots, and spreading disease, she longs to return to a family she has begun to recalla mother, a father, and brothers. Are they alive, surviving, in hiding as she is Do they await news, and hope to reconcile Even in harrowing times, Sabines desires to belong and to be loved pull her away from shelter.

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Lenore Gay is a Licensed Professional Counselor with masters degrees in sociology and rehabilitation counseling. She has worked in agencies and psychiatric hospitals, and for ten years she maintained a private practice. The Virginia Center of the Creative Arts (VCCA) has awarded her two writing fellowships. Her poems and short stories have appeared in several journals. Her essay Mistresses of Magic was published in the anthology In Praise of Our Teachers (Beacon Press). Her story The Hobo won first place in Style Weeklys annual fiction contest. She is a volunteer reader at Blackbird, An Online Journal for Literature & The Arts. Shelter of Leaves is her first book.