BOOK DETAILS:
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Leave Everything You Know Behind by Ginny Fite
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Category: Adult Fiction, 228 pages
Genre: Women’s Fiction
Publisher: Sunbury Press
Release date: January, 2024
Content Rating: PG-13 + M: issues of suicide, some strong language, death
BOOK DESCRIPTION:
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An unexpected friendship changes everything for two women facing the hardest challenges life can dish up.
Cranky, aging newspaper publisher Anne Canfield is determined to live forever, no matter what. Young, brilliant writer and teacher Indira Anand thinks she wants to die. But the winter morning Anne saves Indira Anand from drowning, everything changes.
When Anne is diagnosed with incurable brain cancer and has only months to live, she must hurry to save her newspaper, heal her regrets, keep her secrets hidden, and protect her son from the truth before time runs out. Indira, thwarted by both the law and her distant husband but desperate to escape the pain she watched her grandmother endure, wavers about her decision. Out of options, Indira reaches out to Anne, and they make a pact to help each other. Now it’s just a question of time.
There are many books out there about death and friendship. What makes yours different?
I was thinking about Beaches, Steel Magnolias, Terms of Endearment, and Me Before You when I began writing Leave Everything You Know Behind. What makes Leave different is that the two main characters are strangers from different generations, different cultures, and different life experiences. They are fated to meet when each most needs someone who will understand what they’re going through. Their pact gives Anne the pluck to deal with pressing issues before her inevitable death and provides Indira with the courage to live in spite of her dire prognosis.
How long have you been writing?
All my life. Professionally since my twenties as a reporter for several newspapers and magazines and later as a published poet and short story writer. I started writing my first novel in my early forties with no idea what I was doing. I’m not sure I have any better idea about how to do it now, but eight novels are out in the world and three more are on my computer waiting for a publisher.
Do you write every day?
Yes. Sometimes it’s drivel and I have to delete most of it the next day, but sometimes it’s gold. I don’t aim for a particular word count, but I like to feel like I’ve accomplished something as solid as a full sentence. Unlike the geniuses who write 8,000 words a week, I’m happy if I get 500 words a day I can keep.
Favorite travel spot?
I love the beach, almost any beach, but one with both mountains and the ocean is my favorite. I’m currently developing a novel in which the main character travels to Tofino in British Columbia. I’ve been there and remember it well, but I find myself spending hours gazing at photographs, losing myself in the sunsets over the Pacific Ocean.
What is your next project?
I’m working on a thriller with a female assassin as the main character. It’s very slow going. I have to research everything and resist my natural urge to dive deeply into her psyche. Also, I’ve never been an assassin, so there’s that problem. How does a human operate with no remorse? I want to make her more than a killer robot. The question is how to do that. And right now, except for blowing up the bad guys, I have no idea how it ends.
Award-winning writer and journalist, Ginny Fite has been a journalist, a spokesperson for a governor and for a member of Congress, held posts in higher education institutions, and a robotics R&D company. Writing about ordinary people who grapple with extraordinary circumstances, her eight novels span the genres of mystery, thriller, adventure, and women’s fiction.
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