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| Pollen Press Publishing |
CONEY
ISLAND SIREN
By Theresa
Varela
SUMMARY:
Call it coincidence or call it fate when Maggie Fuentes, rummaging
through a Coney Island flea market, stumbles upon a a handwritten diary whose
author, a young girl of the nineteenth century names Ellen, reveals dreadful
secrets that parallel Maggie's own. Maggie sinks deep into the sinister
maelstrom of her lover, Police Officer Frank Ramirez, until the stark urgency
of lines written by a kindred spirit compel her to confront the reality of her-
and their- lives. Far removed from each other in time but bonded by the
white-capped ocean, amusement park locale, and converging torments, it seems
particularly apt that the sleight-of-hand landscape of luck and chance provides
the setting for Maggie's harrowing and hypnotic encounter with turmoil, then
kismet, and ultimately, clarity and reawakening.
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review by clicking here.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Award winning Puerto Rican author, Theresa Varela, was born and raised in
Brooklyn, NYC. She is the recipient of International Latino Book Awards for
Covering the Sun with My Hand in 2015 and Nights of Indigo Blue: A Daisy Muñiz
Mystery in 2016. Dr. Varela holds a PhD in Nursing Research and Theory
Development and currently works with the mentally ill homeless population in
NYC. She is a member of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses; a member
of Las Comadres para las Americas and is on the Advisory Board of the Latina 50
Plus program. She is Co-Founder of La Pluma y La Tinta- a Writer's Workshop.
Her blog LatinaLibations on Writing and All Things of the Spirit can be found
at theresavarela.com.
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