Maureen Sherbondy Peers Into a Teenager’s Difficult Past, Present and Future in “Lucky Brilliant”
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In this episode 188, we visit with Maureen Sherbondy, author of Lucky Brilliant, a poignant coming-of-age story shrouded in mystery and loss.
When her father is murdered, Lucky begins receiving psychic visions of the future, visions that help her understand the dangerous secrets of her father’s past. As she copes with the broken household her father left behind, Lucky must use these visions to prevent disaster.
Lisa Williams Kline, author of One Week of You, called Lucky Brilliant, “an intriguing coming of age tale,” and an “entrancing page-turner.”
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About the Author:
Maureen Sherbondy is an award-winning writer and the author of Lucky Brilliant, Dancing with Dali, and many other works of poetry, short stories, and chapbooks She is the recipient of the Hart Crane Memorial Poetry Award, NC Poet Laureate Award, Charlotte Writers’ Club Deane Ritch Lomax Poetry Prize, and the Fiction Southeast Editor’s Prize. She currently teaches at Alamance Community College and lives in Durham, North Carolina with her husband, Barry Peters.
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LUCKY BRILLIANT by Maureen Sherbondy perfectly captures teen anger, confusion, and alienation in a fast-paced story of loss and longing. Lucky is a heroine who must rescue herself. The plot twists as she wrestles with her gift of premonition, convinced that she can rewrite the future. Her shocking discoveries grip the reader from prologue to finish.
What if all your bad dreams started coming true? Fifteen-year-old Lucky Brilliant feels anything but fortunate. With her father dead and her mother drunk, Lucky struggles to cope. Living in a broken house and troubled by nightmares, she escapes into the only world she can control, her art. As secret after secret unfolds, Lucky finds herself unsure of anything she thought she knew.
-Nancy Young, author of Sensing Things
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