A Jigsaw Life

A Jigsaw Life

by Angela Carlton
A Jigsaw Life

A Jigsaw Life

by Angela Carlton

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Overview

A Jigsaw Life is a series of short stories that are set in the deep South surrounding a woman named Violet, a mother who suffers from bipolar episodes and severe depression. Lilly, the oldest daughter, will use her beauty and charm to maneuver through a small Georgia town but this ultimately sets her up for tragedy in the end. Meanwhile, the youngest girl in the family, named Jane, must work her way out of the heavy cobwebs of dysfunction. As a further matter, Violet and Jane are left struggling to overcome these hardships in order to prosper or grow.

This is a collection of short southern stories that deal with flawed, and profound relationships, from the beginning with Jane, the child who must use her strength and creative energy to endure life with an unstable mother, and later she must learn to rise above her own father’s addiction. In other stories, as Jane grows into adulthood her romantic relationships are tested when boundaries are crossed and broken once more, wreaking havoc on the weak.

Will she rise or will she fall? Can Jane pick up the jigsaw pieces of a shattered life and find her way back home again?


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781638293415
Publisher: Austin Macauley
Publication date: 12/16/2022
Pages: 94
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.19(d)

About the Author

Angela Carlton is a Georgia native. Her fiction has been published in EWR, everyday fiction, Pedestal magazines, Long story short, High noon, 50-word stories and Friday flash fiction. In addition, she won the reader’s choice award with Pedestal magazine in 2004. When she was a child, she wrote a book called The Magic Fish and tucked it away in a box for safekeeping.

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