will be in the world on September 1, 2020

How did Where We Are come to be? It wrote itself in a fever dream two winters ago. Laptop on lap, I hunkered down on the couch for months on end, fingers flying on the keyboard in the kind of crazed typing that used to silence my children’s friends as they watched from the doorway.

Possibly inspired by true events, Where We Are is about two teens, Sesame, who’s alone in the world, and her boyfriend Micah, who watches helplessly as his parents fall under the spell of a cult leader who promises that a better world awaits them once they shed the refuse of the secular world. Vowing to watch over them, he disappears into an underground world along with his parents and the other cult members.

Sesame knows his life is in danger. She can sense it. She can feel him desperately calling to her to find him. But where is he? No one else, not even her best friends, believe the situation is as critical as she knows it is.

Fierce, intense, a race against the clock to find Micah before he disappears forever in the dead of a Minneapolis winter, Where We Are kept me awake at night as if I myself were Sesame. As if I myself had lost the person I most love in the world. As if we –Minneapolis, the USA, the world–are all in a fight against the forces that would take over our minds, and bodies, and souls.

From the jacket:

Where We Are is available at the links below, and wherever and however you buy or borrow your books. As always, free virtual visits to any book club who chooses the novel!