Supposing She Dreamed This

By Gail Wallace Bozzano

"Katrina, out for a nighttime walk, indulgesin the universal curiosity of a after-dark pedestrians: 'She liked to peer inside lit windows at people going about their lives....' The well-lit images this main character sees inside her neighbor's homes only serve to frame the domestic challenges she'd stepped outside to forget - a special-needs son, a tone-deaf husband, a prying mother. A deadly crack in her favorite maple tree breaks her open, and we get a brief but visceral glance into her daily life. Titled for a line from an ee cummings poem, this story shows Katrina functioning much like the poet's jealouswind, blowing over and through her own house with her active, observant interior life. Unsuspecting objects topple. Her dreams of a second child, her relationship with her mother, her husband's unrealistic desires. Supposing She Dreamed This deftly reflects the lives of one mother, of one family, in such an intimate portrait that reading this story feels like sitting at Katrina and Wayne's kitchen table, alongside privilege and voyeurism. In the main, no one can know the truth of a familyunless you're living in it. - MARDI JO LINK author of five books, including memoirs and crime stories set in Northern Michigan

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1533270031
• ISBN13: 9781533270030
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.1" x 5.5"