A Matrix of Angels
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On the surface, Frances Pastan is a successful, celebrated, award-winning creator of children's books. But beneath the accolades, she is drowning in alcoholism, alienated from her daughter, and completely paralyzed by decades of repressed trauma. Desperate for closure, Frances steps off her promotional tour and returns to Quiet, California, the small town she left thirty years ago. There, alternating between the fragile present and the memories of her past, she must confront the ghost that fractured her life: the brutal, long-ago murder of her childhood best friend, the fierce and brash Lucy Sparrow. Nominated for the Bram Stoker Award, A Matrix of Angels is a harrowing, beautifully evocative elegy of love, loss, and the devastating architecture of memory.
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Christopher Conlon's poems, stories, and articles have appeared in such diverse publications as America Magazine, Poet Lore, The Long Story, Filmfax, Dark Discoveries, and Poets & Writers. He is the author of three previous books of poems (Gilbert and Garbo in Love, The Weeping Time, and Mary Falls: Requiem for Mrs. Surratt) as well as a novel, Midnight on Mourn Street, which he recently adapted for the stage. As an editor his credits include He Is Legend: An Anthology Celebrating Richard Matheson, Poe's Lighthouse, and The Twilight Zone Scripts of Jerry Sohl. A former Peace Corps Volunteer, Conlon holds an M.A. in American Literature from the University of Maryland. Visit him online at http://christopherconlon.com.
