Böcker av Sybil Baker

After Simone learns that her ex-husband Guy has died unexpectedly at the age of fifty, her only regret is that she didn't expose his affairs when she had the chance. But when a woman asks her to help her disrupt his Celebration of Life planned in Northern Cyprus, Simone wonders if she has a last chance to reveal Guy's hypocrisy. Accompanied by her best friend, Simone arrives in Cyprus; however, the circumstances surrounding Guy's death become increasingly mysterious. Worse, since Guy's death, Simone has been haunted by Guy and the ghosts of her loved ones warning her of impending danger. As the Celebration approaches and Simone's mental state deteriorates, she must decide who she should trust and who she must betray in order to save herself.

"e;This fast-paced story of a family secret will keep readers turning pages."e;Krys Lee, author of Drifting HouseAllison flies to Seoul to discover the truth about her adopted sister. A tangled history of love and deception reunites two sisters whose fates were shaped by a long-lost love and its attendant lies, and the history of a country and a man they never understood.Sybil Baker is the author of The Life Plan and Talismans. She spent twelve years teaching in South Korea, returning to the United States in 2007. She teaches creative writing at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Sybil Baker's TALISMANS is a contemporary Heart of Darkness. In its linked stories, Baker's compelling protagonist, Elise, travels throughout Asia in search of a way to come to terms with the deaths of her first love, her mother, and, especially, her father, a Vietnam vet who drowned in Thailand, where he lived with his second wife and family after abandoning Elise when she was a child. Although it is a harrowing journey, one in which she endures the loss of a lover, an opium habit, and the temptation of suicide, it is also an uplifting journey, as full of light as of darkness. The stories trace Elise's gradual movement away from what Koreans call han, the 'longing and sadness for something or someone that you can't have,' to jung, a 'feeling of attachment and affection, no matter what happens.' By tracing Elise's achievement of jung, Baker's stories become powerful talismans against death, loss, and the kind of fear that prevents us from living fully and truly. Read them and you will feel their marvelous magic at work in your heart, mind, and soul."e;-David Jauss, author of Black Maps and Alone With All That Could Happen"e;Sybil Baker writes beautifully of a young woman's journey to make peace with her past, in spite of being impeded by loss. The felt-life of her settings pulses on every page. The young woman is brave; Sybil Baker is brave, as well, for writing with such keen honesty."e;-Patricia Henley, author of Hummingbird House and In the River Sweet