Table for One: Stories - Christina Holbrook

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Résumé :
In Christina Holbrook's affecting new story collection, women struggle to define for themselves the meaning of love and success. Traveling the world to find their place in it or coming home to claim what is theirs, her heroines are vulnerable, fierce, and foolhardy-often in equal measure. Above all, they are complex and contradictory individuals, always on the verge of hope. Holbrook's debut novel, All the Flowers of the Mountain, was published in 2022. The book is the 2023 Winner of the Colorado Book Award for Romance and also won a Bronze IPPY Award. PRAISE FOR All the Flowers of the Mountain A paean to one young woman's insistence on being true to herself, no matter the odds or the cost.-Emily Colin, New York Times bestselling author of The Memory Thief Christina Holbrook's gorgeous writing gives the book an intimacy and narrative momentum that makes it hard to put down.-Christie Aschwanden, New York Times bestselling author of Good To Go Holbrook writes with such keen emotional awareness and descriptive flair.-Jeff Deck, author of The Shadow Over Portsmouth series...

Biographie:
Christina Holbrook graduated with a BA from Wellesley College and spent most of her career in New York City involved in the printing and publishing of art and photography books. She now lives in Breckenridge, Colorado, with her husband Alan Dulit. Christina has worked as a columnist for the Summit Daily newspaper in Colorado, and her short stories have appeared in a number of literary journals. All the Flowers of the Mountain, her first novel, was published by Sunroom Studios in 2022 and has received the 2023 Colorado Book Award for Romance, the 2023 IPPY Bronze Medal for Romance, and the 2025 IPPY Silver Medal for Fiction Audiobook....

Sommaire:
In Christina Holbrook's affecting new story collection, women struggle to define for themselves the meaning of love and success. Traveling the world to find their place in it or coming home to claim what is theirs, her heroines are vulnerable, fierce, and foolhardy-often in equal measure. Above all, they are complex and contradictory individuals, always on the verge of hope. Holbrook's debut novel, All the Flowers of the Mountain, was published in 2022. The book is the 2023 Winner of the Colorado Book Award for Romance and also won a Bronze IPPY Award. PRAISE FOR All the Flowers of the Mountain A paean to one young woman's insistence on being true to herself, no matter the odds or the cost.-Emily Colin, New York Times bestselling author of The Memory Thief Christina Holbrook's gorgeous writing gives the book an intimacy and narrative momentum that makes it hard to put down.-Christie Aschwanden, New York Times bestselling author of Good To Go Holbrook writes with such keen emotional awareness and descriptive flair.-Jeff Deck, author of The Shadow Over Portsmouth series...