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Corinne Demas is the award-winning author of thirty-nine books including seven novels, two short story collections, a memoir, a collection of poetry, and numerous books for children, as well as two plays. She is a professor emerita of English at Mount Holyoke College.
Daughters
"A new novel exploring the age-old friction
between mothers and daughters, a story
of a family rediscovering itself." -- PW Marketplace
“Daughters works beautifully as a novel, thanks to the author’s skill at delineating character and weaving narrative. Delia, Merry and their family emerge as real people about whom the reader cannot help caring…Demas has created a moving, powerful story.” ―Daily Hampshire Gazette
“When Demas immerses herself in the world of her characters she lets it all play out―and her readers respond…In real life there is no scripting happy ending. It is the same for Demas’s characters.She makes them work it out.―MassLive
“Corinne Demas is a master of domestic fiction. Her new novel is a probing portrait of family friction and fulfillment. An engrossing and illuminating read.” ― William O’Rourke, Signs of the Literary Times
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Behind the novel
My newest novel, Daughters, is set in a part of the world—Western Massachusetts—where I’ve lived for many years. I grew up in New York City, so I often note how different life is here, in a small New England town. The setting of Daughters —a two hundred year old house and barn on a small farm—is almost as important as the characters themselves: Delia is a Suzuki violin teacher on the cusp of retirement, her husband Bob, a retired radiologist, and Delia’s three adult children: her older daughter, Kat, her perennially good-natured son, Evan, and her youngest offspring, Meredith.
The novel begins when Meredith suddenly arrives on the doorstep with her young daughter, Eloise, in tow. Meredith has fled her marriage and her life in L.A. and is hoping to build a new one in her old home. (read more)
The Road Towards Home
In this witty, warm novel unexpected changes bring two retirees together on a voyage of self-discovery from past regrets to the true meaning of happily ever after. (read more)
Fast-paced and fun to read, this tale told from an elder's point of view gives excellent insight into what many of us will deal with as we age. - New York Journal of Books
“Late love, beautifully and wryly rendered. Both light hearted and insightful, with age-defying charm and wit, The Road Towards Home is a totally satisfying (and identifiable!) read.” —Elinor Lipman, author of Every Tom, Dick & Harry
