{"product_id":"mothers-and-other-strangers-paperback","title":"Mothers and Other Strangers - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGina Sorell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"My father proposed to my mother at gunpoint when she was nineteen, and knowing that she was already pregnant with a dead man's child, she accepted.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThus begins this riveting story of a woman's quest to understand her recently deceased mother, a glamorous, cruel narcissist who left her only child, Elsie, an inheritance of debts and mysteries. While coping with threats that she suspects are coming from the cult-like spiritual program her mother belonged to, Elsie works to unravel the message her dying mother left for her, a quest that ultimately takes her to the South African family homestead she never knew existed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAfter two decades of working as an actor, Gina Sorell returned to her first love--writing.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA graduate with distinction of UCLA Extension Writers' Program, she is the author of \u003ci\u003eMothers and Other Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e. Originally from Johannesburg, Gina has lived in New York and Los Angeles, and now lives in Toronto with her family. Gina balances the solitary hours of fiction writing with work as a creative director and brand storyteller under the banner of her own agency, Words Make The Brand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGina Sorell is a writer, actor, and creative director, born in South Africa and currently residing in Toronto with her husband and son. After two decades as a working actor of stage and screen, Gina decided to return to her first love, writing, and graduated with distinction from UCLA Extension Writers Program. Gina pairs her many hours of novel writing with her work as a Creative Director of Eat My Words, a San Franciscobased branding firm. \u003ci\u003eMothers and Other Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e is her first novel.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 02, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769897386272,"sku":"9781938849893","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/2e0ff33924bb70cd4d846f68a8b58a70.webp?v=1780359207","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/mothers-and-other-strangers-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}