Emmanuel

by Melissa Crickard

Overview

Emmanuel opens on the day Emmanuel "Manny" Ayala's best friend is shot in a stand off of drug related violence. As Manny struggles to come of age in violent Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, he discovers family secrets that will force him to choose between staying in Mexico and leaving for a life that's unlike anything he's ever known. Emmanuel is a pristine work of hope reimagined, of faith lost and regained, and of the one love that's impossible to lose.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781951482015
Publisher:	Melissa Franckowiak
Publication date:	08/29/2020
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Melissa Crickard is an MFA student and a practicing anesthesiologist in Buffalo, NY. Her short fiction piece, The Very Pertinent News of Gabriel Vincent DeVil, recently placed in the 86th Annual Writer's Digest Literary Fiction Awards, and her work has appeared in Nanny Magazine, Parent Co., MothersAlwaysWrite.com, Bird's Thumb, Dark Ink Anthology, Wanderlust, Fredericksburg Literary and Art Review, the anthology Children of Zeus, and Ghost Parachute, among other publications. Melissa scooped ice cream and carney barked before attending Institute of Technology and the University of Buffalo, and after being awarded two Bachelor’s degrees in Physical Therapy and Chemistry, she advanced toward her M.D. degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Melissa is the mother of two children, the owner of a chatty Panama Amazon parrot, and a lover of all things outdoors.

Editorial Reviews

Emmanuel is wonderfully imagined, from the beauty of the Mexican landscape to the gruesome brutality of the events that take place. Simply masterful, poetic and real.

Lightning