ISBN: 978-1-60264-205-8, softcover, $14.95, 301 pages
Fiction: “Living in North Dakota was reason enough to commit suicide” (...living is an illness…death the remedy...). Bethany has lived the majority of her life in psychiatric facilities where infrequent pinholes of light reveal an entirely different family history than the one written in her doctor’s notes (...I was a child and she was a child in this kingdom by the sea...). Out in an unreal world, Bethany’s childhood is revealed through flashes of faded photographs, bits of disjointed script, reruns of black and white video, and a few scraps of fact (...and after all, what is a lie, but the truth in masquerade?...). A mental chorus of songs, quotes, scriptures, and the rhythmic cadence of a drumbeat accompany this dark, disturbing retelling of one possible story: Two little girls entered the woods; only one returned. Mocked and scorned by voices of conscience or madness that oppose, con-test, and shroud the facts (...darkness and light to thee are both alike...), Bethany desperately tries to piece together the truth before her fragile connection to reality is broken and she is finally lost to the impending darkness (...lost to love and truth...).
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ardyce Ketterling has written two novels, to include Keeper of the Lie and Dynamite, with a third work in progress, ForgetMeNot. Ardyce has published in national markets (Writer’s International Open Forum, Amateur Writer’s Journal, Poet-Works Press) and regional North Dakota markets (Heart River Forum, Carbon Copy, Senior Lifestyles). She also contributed to a slice of life column, “Perspectives,” for The Bismarck Tribune (Bismarck, ND) for three years and won multiple awards in the North Dakota State Fair Heritage and Writing Competitions for poetry and short story submissions.
Having received her Masters Degree in English from North Dakota State University, Ardyce recently transplanted to Pennsylvania with her husband, Glen Davis, where she is an Assistant Professor of English at Hagerstown Community College, Maryland.
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