Announcing The Good Divide, a new novel from Kali VanBaale, American Book Award winning author
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Announcing The Good Divide, a new novel from Kali VanBaale, American Book Award winning author
Kali VanBaale’s second novel, The Good Divide, forthcoming from MG Press in June 2016, is the story of Wisconsin farm wife Jean Krenshaw, forced to confront a ten-year-old family secret when her brother-in-law Tommy, who lives next door, marries leery newcomer Liz.
Advance praise and reviews have already been pouring in:
“This is the novel I was waiting to read.”
—Laura Kasischke, The Life Before Her Eyes
“The Good Divide surprises with the depth of…heartache, the intensity of the torments and jealousies that its characters succumb to, or survive.”
—Caitlin Horrocks, author of This is Not Your City
“VanBaale serves up romance, deception, and a final, surprising retribution. The backdrop is a Wisconsin dairy farm, but the subject is the wounded recesses of the human heart.”
—Pamela Carter Joern, author of In the Reach and The Floor of the Sky
“With gentle echoes of Richard Yates and Sherwood Anderson, The Good Divide…conveys the chaos and complications of domesticity—[it] is sure to make your heart simultaneously swell and splinter.”
—Mathieu Cailler, author of Loss Angeles
“VanBaale masterfully captures that crazy mystical spirit of farm folklore. Dark and delicious reading for those of us who love best the characters who’ve earned their baggage.”
—Jennifer Wilson, author of Running Away to Home
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About The Good Divide
Paperback 5″ x 8″
ISBN: 978-1-944850-00-5
Languages: English
Page count: 202
Genre: Literary Fiction
Formats: Print, PDF, ePub, .mobi
Description
In the lush countryside of Wisconsin, Jean Krenshaw is the ideal 1960’s dairy farm wife. She cooks, sews, raises children, and plans an annual July 4th party for friends and neighbors. But when her brother-in-law Tommy, who lives next door, marries leery newcomer Liz, Jean is forced to confront a ten-year-old family secret involving the unresolved death of a young woman.
With stark and swift prose, The Good Divide explores one woman’s tortured inner world, and the painful choices that have divided her life, both past and present, forever.
To request a print, PDF, mobi or ePub advance review copy, email MGP@midwestgothic.com
Where to Buy
List price: $15 Print / $4.99 eBook
Release Date: June, 2014
The Good Divide can be reserved for $1 preorder at 20% off the list price.
Distribution
Ingram, Amazon, Lulu, iBooks, Kindle Books, Nook Books.
All purchasing information and links can be found at
http://midwestgothic.com/2015/01/the-good-divide-by-kali-vanbaale/
About the Author
Kali VanBaale’s debut novel, The Space Between earned an American Book Award, the Independent Publisher’s silver medal for general fiction, and the Fred Bonnie Memorial First Novel Award. She is also the recipient of a State of Iowa Arts Council major project artist grant. Her short stories and essays have appeared in The Milo Review, Northwind Literary, The Writer and several anthologies.
Kali earned an MFA in creative writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and has been an assistant professor and Visiting Writer at Drake University. She lives outside Des Moines with her husband and three children.
For a hi-res author headshot, email MGP@midwestgothic.com
About MG Press
MG Press is a publisher devoted to a select number of titles each year. An extension of the literary journal Midwestern Gothic, MG Press retains the same core values: shining a spotlight on Midwest authors by focusing on works that showcase all aspects of life—good, bad, or ugly.
The authors and books chosen exemplify these traits; they are representatives of the Midwest, and aim to celebrate what makes the Midwest such a unique place, highlighting our mythologies, stories, and culture that the world may be missing out on.
MG Press is based out of Chicago, Illinois.
About the Founders
Robert James Russell is the author of the novels Mesilla (Dock Street Press) and Sea of Trees (Winter Goose Publishing), and the chapbook Don’t Ask Me to Spell It Out (WhiskeyPaper Press). Nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize, his work has appeared in numerous publications, both print and online. You can find him online at robertjamesrussell.com.
Jeff Pfaller is a co-founder and fiction editor for Midwestern Gothic, a quarterly literary journal focused on celebrating Midwestern writing and authors. His short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in James Gunn’s Ad Astra, Jupiter, North Chicago Review, and Fiction on the Web. His short story, “The Cellar Door,” earned an honorable mention from L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future Contest.
For more information, visit http://www.midwestgothic.com/mg-press or email MGP@midwestgothic.com
To request a print, PDF, mobi or ePub advance review copy, email MGP@midwestgothic.com
