Canadian author Deb Elkink has this to say about The Third Grace, her award-winning debut novel:
The story “is set in the contrasting locales of Parisian street and Nebraskan farmyard, and incorporates Greek mythology and aesthetics with the personal search for self.”
Deb is an excellent and imaginative writer of unique stories. She’s giving away an ebook edition, and the contest is open to anyone–no matter where you live!
The Story
The past casts a long shadow—especially when it points to a woman’s first love.
Her name was Mary Grace until she fell in love with the French exchange student visiting her family’s Nebraska farm. François renamed her “Aglaia”—after the beautiful Third Grace of Greek mythology—and set the seventeen-year-old girl longing for something more than her parents’ simplistic life and faith.
Now, fifteen years later, Aglaia works as a costume designer in Denver. Her budding success in the city’s posh arts scene convinces her that she’s left the naïve farm girl far behind. But “Mary Grace” has deep roots, as Aglaia learns during a business trip to Paris. Her discovery of sensual notes François jotted into a Bible during that long-ago fling, a silly errand imposed by her mother, and the scheming of her sophisticated mentor conspire to create a thirst in her soul that neither evocative daydreams nor professional success can quench.
The Third Grace is a captivating debut novel that will take you on a dual journey across oceans and time—in the footsteps of a woman torn between her rural upbringing and her search for self.
Note:
- The Rafflecopter winner does NOT need a U.S. address.
- The giveaway is for an ebook edition for The Third Grace.
- Contest Guidelines Link
Somewhere in between for me!!
For me it’s playing in Country/Farm
city
Man, I love the contrast between deep countryside for daily living (black, quiet, starry nights) and the wild excesses of society in the big city (hypershopping and showing off heels and a new dress)! So . . . Not in between but extremes on both ends.
Thank you so much for sharing. God bless you.
Somewhere in between! I like smaller towns or maybe smaller cities!
Thanks for the chance to win!
Sounds like an interesting story. One I’d like to read.
Debi, how encouraging. I hope you do read it. : ) Thanks for entering.
I’ve lived in both but prefer the small town.
I like your rationale, Patricia! Stores are quite important to me as well. : )
Oops, I meant that comment to go to Laura–haha! You’d think I’d never answered a blog post before. Sigh.
Somewhere in between…out of town a bit but not so far away that it takes forever to get to stores.
Laura–see my response to you under Patricia above. (Duh.)
Somewhere in between.