Daughters

Corinne Demas is the award-winning author of thirty-eight books, including six novels (among them The Road Towards Home and The Writing Circle), two short story collections, a memoir (Eleven Stories High: Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town), a poetry chapbook (The Donkeys Postpone Gratification), a play, and numerous books for children (among them Saying Goodbye to Lulu, The Littlest Matryoshka, and The Perfect Tree). Her short stories have appeared in more than fifty publications. She is the editor of Great American Short Stories: From Hawthorne to Hemingway.Demas is a professor emerita of English at Mount Holyoke College and a fiction editor for The Massachusetts Review. She divides her time between western Massachusetts and Cape Cod. To learn more, visit the author’s website at www.CorinneDemas.com.

“Daughters works beautifully as a novel, thanks to the author’s skill at delineating character and weaving narrative. From the beginning to the end of the novel, Delia, Merry and their family emerge as real people about whom the reader cannot help caring…In short, Demas has created a moving, powerful story.” —Daily Hampshire Gazette“When Demas immerses herself in the world of her characters she lets it all play out—and her readers respond…In real life there is no scripting happy ending. And so, it is the same for Demas’s characters. She never lets them off the hook; she makes them work it out. And sometimes readers lend a hand.” —MassLive“Corinne Demas is a master of domestic fiction. Her new novel is a probing portrait of family friction and fulfillment. Once again, an engrossing and illuminating read.” —William O’Rourke, Signs of the Literary TimesPraise for books by Corinne DemasThe Road Towards Home“Both lighthearted and insightful, with age-defying charm and wit…a totally satisfying (and identifiable!) read.” —Elinor Lipman, author of Every Tom, Dick & HarryThe Writing Circle“Memorable characters and elegant prose, The Writing Circle weaves a web that tightens slowly around you as you read until you find you simply can’t put it down…A wonderful book, tense, engaging, and highly recommended.” —Karen Joy Fowler, author of BoothThe Same River Twice“Intelligent and graceful, often moving, a book that walks with poise through the mined fields of contemporary marriage, of motherhood and, not least, daughterhood. Corinne Demas is not flamboyant; she is something far more valuable than that: honest, funny, and gravely optimistic in spite of all.” —Rosellen Brown, author of The Lake on FireEverything I Was“An authentic portrait of country life, economic stress, and the tensions associated with a major life change…an absorbing coming-of-age tale.” —Publishers WeeklyWhat We Save for Last“Throughout these bittersweet tales, women’s past losses linger as a white noise in the background of otherwise fulfilled lives…these stories make unsettling, poignant reading.” —Publishers Weekly