Fiction. After the breakup of a long-term relationship, forty-something Caroline Traeger must put her life back together. Left alone with her seven-year-old daughter, she desperately searches back through her life for an explanation for her personal failure. Through stories of her adventurous past, she explores love, desire, commitment, and loneliness, comparing her own choices to those of other women she's met along the way. Her journey is ours, re-arranging the pieces of the puzzle that make a meaningful life.

Author Hometown: BROOKLYN, NY USA



About the author: Nava Renek is a writer, editor, and educator. Her short stories and essays can be found in literary magazines and websites such as The MacGuffin, ZONE 3, The Brooklyn Rail, mrbellersneighborhood, More.com, Respiro, among others. Her books include the novels SPIRITLAND (Spuyten Duyvil, 2002) and NO PERFECT WORDS (Spuyten Duyvil, 2009), and the short story collection MATING IN CAPTIVITY (Spuyten Duyvil, 2012). She is also the editor of WRECKAGE OF REASON: XXPERIMENTAL PROSE BY CONTEMPORARY WOMEN WRITERS (Spuyten Duyvil, 2008). Renek lives in Brooklyn where she is program coordinator of the Women's Center at Brooklyn College/CUNY.