Mary Bess Dunn Explores Societal Expectations and Familial Love in “Fate Havens”
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In this episode 131, we visit with Mary Bess Dunn, author of the book, “Fate Havens.”
“Fate Havens” is literary fiction, a set of inter-linked character driven stories that attempt to make sense of the world around us. The tales addresses societal expectations and the persistence of familial love. Again and again, the stories return to core questions: What is a good life? What do we owe to family? Dunn’s characters never settle into simple emotions, and many stories have an engaging mood of nostalgia, tinged with sadness.
Jennie Fields, author of :The Age of Desire,” calls the stories “exquisitely drawn tales of the fate we all face: hope vs. reality, love vs. aloneness and the desire to connect vs. the lonely human journey. Brilliant, insightful and touching, ‘Fate Havens’ leaves the reader thinking about the meaning of his own choices, her own life. A beautiful, insightful volume you won’t soon forget.”
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After retiring from a career as a teacher educator, Mary Bess Dunn continues to follow her lifelong passion for literature and writing.
A nominee for the Pushcart Prize, her work has appeared in several literary journals, including The Alembic, Pembroke Magazine, and Quiddity International Literary Journal.
Mary Bess is an avid cyclist who also enjoys yoga, pickleball, travel, playing the piano and hugging the grandkids. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
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This is not the way it’s supposed to be. Her son’s partner is a man. Her daughter abandons God. Her widowed friend takes a lover way too soon. Her husband accepts it all with grace. These are some of the challenges facing Roslyn Hansen Meyers who comes from good people and is duty bound to carry out the promise of her Southern roots. In this cycle of stories, unfolding over the last half century into the present, Roslyn’s nearest and dearest come to terms, each in their own way, with the tragedies, triumphs, and painful surprises family loyalty demands, while Roslyn’s struggles to keep up in a world where even sunshine is unsafe.
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