Ebook {Epub PDF} What Came Before by Gay Degani

What Came Before is a fast-paced murder mystery set in the heart and spirit of L.A. Though issues of class, race and politics hover in the air, the book focuses on character and story. Gay Degani is a skillful storyteller, and her character Abbie is full of enough spunk and gumption to have you rooting for her from page one. What Came Before by Gay Degani was written by a woman who, admittedly, got “lost in living.” Like so many people, and I suppose I mean particularly women, Degani felt writing took up too much of her time, time that “should” be spent—and would be better spent—raising a family, i.e. . Gay Degani’s prose is a What Came Before is a remarkable achievement – a smart, fast-paced mystery that asks important questions about identity, family, and race. And, like the best of its genre, it’s loaded with puzzles: What really happened on the day Abbie Palmer’s mother killed herself?

What Came Before from Amazon or BarnesNoble. Pomegranate Stories from Amazon. Rattle of Want. A Collection of Stories. WCB Reviews. fear, suspense, relief, joy, and sometimes sadness. So is a good story. -Gay Degani. And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing. Gay Degani, in "What Came Before", does not mince words. She, in fact, knows words with that investigational flair that gives us a challenge to submit to and a page-turning joy to allow us to move along with. From the start of this exceptional contemporary novel, Degani digs deeply into scenes with modern characters that jump out at you as. Gay Degani has received nominations and honors for her work including Pushcart consideration and Best Small Fictions. She's published a collection of eight stories about mothers, Pomegranate, a full-length collection, Rattle of Want, (Pure Slush Press, ) and a suspense novel, What Came Before (Truth Serum Press, ). She occasionally blogs at Words in Place, bltadwin.ru

'What Came Before is a remarkable achievement Ð a smart, fast-paced mystery that asks important questions about identity, family, and race. by Gay Degani. Within the first two paragraphs of Gay Degani’s novel, What Came Before, the reader is thrust into a story that sizzles: I can’t run. Can’t breathe. Dry kernels blow through my lips. I wake up sweating, legs tangled in sheets, eyes gritty, mouth dry, my brain jammed together like frozen broccoli. I thoroughly enjoyed Gay Degani's literary suspense novel, What Came Before. Degani is the author of the well-regarded collection, Pomegranate Stories, and is editor-emeritus of Flash Fiction Chronicles. She is an editor at Smokelong Quarterly as well. What Came Before is a "novel in flash," told entirely in chapters of three or four pages.