Release date: June
2014
Self-Published
BOOK DESCRIPTION:
Sunday Morning is nineteen
and recently diagnosed with Osteosarcoma. She finds it fair: a deathly cancer
to pay for her sins.
The fourth of five
daughters, Sunday could never overcome the jealousy she felt for her sisters,
especially the youngest and her Rett Syndrome with all the attention she
required. She knows her resentment and rebellion as a wayward teen brought
tragedy to her family, but never learned exactly the extent. Self-exiled in Brazil living a
hard life of penitence for five years, she finally feels it's possible to come
back and try to mend things.
Scott Goodwin writes
bestseller biographies and always dreamed of writing about his idol, Grandma's
Eye's vocalist, Iris Morning. The singer and her husband, Douglas Oshiro, have
been reclusive since 1984, when their famous psychedelic rock band announced a
surprising halt. Scott is thrilled when Iris finally agrees to let him write
the book and even more so when she explains why. She hopes the bio will help
finding her daughter Sunday and rebuild her shattered family.
It is Sunday, however, who
finds Scott. Still too mortified to face her family, she offers her story to
Scott in exchange for inside information about them. Scott has no idea how
intensely the deal will change their lives when he agrees.
Through her own family's
history, from the first Oshiros and Mornings, WWII impact on her ancestors and
the struggle to form the band despite Iris’ abusive stepfather—the chain of
events that led to the band’s success, the birth of a new generation, and the
night that changed everything—Scott will try to show Sunday nobody is perfect,
and perhaps everything happens for a reason.
Sunday and Scott may not
have much time, with her diagnosis and the fact she doesn't feel worthy of
redemption, but he will not give up easily. Scott has become Sunday’s only link
to the past, and perhaps her only chance to have a future.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Renata
F. Barcelos lives in Brazil
with her teenager daughter, Maria, constantly complaining about the heat and
dreaming of moving somewhere snowy.
She
has a Law Degree, but promises never to use it. She prefers to study and teach
languages and to write. Facing a three-hour daily commute, Renata uses this
time to listen to audiobook after audiobook, plot, and write. Sometimes she
hurts herself walking and writing at the same time—forgetting to look where
she’s going.
Her
characters usually don’t respect her wishes, taking the stories to places she
never imagined they could go; she loves it when that happens.
Renata
is always working on a new novel, and so far has three published books: Mean,
My Sore Hush-a-Bye and Merge. Her next novel, Myself in Blue, will be released
in June, 2014.
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