LIVID by Cai Emmons - Review & Giveaway

 

In LIVID (RedHenPress) by Cai Emmons, Sybil White Brown returns from Boston to the small West Coast city where she once lived, hoping to heal after a terrible loss. 

Summoned to jury duty, she is dismayed to be assigned to the jury of a murder trial alongside her ex-husband with whom she had a rancorous divorce. As the trial progresses, she and her ex tiptoe around each other but eventually become disastrously entangled.

Meanwhile, Sybil obsesses about the female defendant, whom she believes is innocent. The situation explodes during jury deliberations when Sybil comes face-to-face with her own unexpressed rage.

LIVID is a complex, compelling story about women anger, and how nothing is what is truly seems to be. Themes of guilt love, trust and truth will keep you turning the pages.

Cai Emmons is the author of several books of fiction: His Mother’s Son, The Stylist, Weather Woman, Vanishing, and Sinking Islands, as well as the recently published novels Livid and Unleashed. Winner of the Oregon Book Award, the Leapfrog Press Fiction Contest, a Nautilus Award, and finalist for the Missouri Review Editor’s Prize as well as the Narrative Magazine Fiction Prize, Emmons was also short-listed for the Sarton Award and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. 

Her essays and stories have appeared in such publications as TriQuarterly, LitHub, Electric Literature, The LA Times, and Ms. Magazine. A summa cum laude graduate of Yale College, Emmons holds MFA degrees in film and fiction. 

Before turning to fiction Cai wrote for theater, film, and television. Two of her plays—Mergatroid and When Petulia Comes—were produced in New York theaters. She wrote for the TV show The Trials of Rosie O’Neill, and has optioned numerous feature-length screenplays. 

She has taught at several colleges and universities, mostly recently in the University of Oregon’s Creative Writing Program. She lives in Eugene, Oregon.

http://caiemmons.com

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