BOOKS
Books written by Dyanne Asimow
CANARIES
Canaries is the story of Linda, a 35-year-old woman who loses her voice. Unable to speak, she finds herself confronting a failing marriage, an invitation to sexual adventure, and most alarmingly, the possibility that the person she thought she was is not who she is. Determined not to disappear, Linda attempts to fashion a new self through the process of narrative. Canaries follows her progress as she navigates these treacherous waters.
Reviews
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I devoured Canaries! The humor, the light touch, the twists and turns of the plot...Truly, a delight. So much fun, with heart and poignancy beneath the fun.
- Bernadette Murphy, bestselling author, Zen and the Art of Knitting, Harley and Me: Embracing Risk on the Road to a More Authentic Life
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Dyanne Asimow has created a witty song about voice - how we lose ours, and how we find it..Comic and bracing. Canaries is a joy to read.
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- Cathleen Schine, bestselling author, The Love Letter: The Grammarians.
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Canaries is a gorgeously written and compulsively readable tale about Finding One's Voice- in both a literal and metaphorical sense. Asimow's observations about marriage, sex, and self-identity are vividly original.
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- Lindsay Marcott, author of Mrs. Rochester's Ghost and The Producer's Daughter.
THE EDGE OF FINALIA
The prophecy spoke of a beast, a raven, a snake ...and a girl who dared to dream in a world where dreams were forbidden.
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Finalia has a box for everything--except imagination. Gemma, now a Thirteen, is a misfit. She wears outlawed colors, she won't fill out her Personality Assessment and most dangerously she dreams... It is because of those dreams that this girl and her best friend, Lecko of the Golden Javelin get thrust into a battle against the Maw, the dark and infinite void which is devouring their universe. As foreseen in the crystal hexagon long ago, Gemma is a spark who keeps hope alive. Whether she likes it or not, she is the One Whom.
Reviews
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In the spirit of Pullman's The Golden Compass or Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, the story of Gemmas quest to become The One Whom is a page-turning, wizard-twisting, dream-battling journey through the imagination. I hope it never ends.
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Beware this marvelous and fantastical book. It will hold you spellbound.
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Like Frodo, our diminutive hero Gemma, with the help of devoted friends, shouldered the burden of saving her world from the dark forces that threatened to consume all light and goodness and dreams. The girl who would never comply, surrender; who embraced her destiny as 'The One Whom'. The one whom what you ask? Read the book.
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- Margaret Stohl, The New York Times bestselling Co-Author of the Beautiful Creatures novels.
- Pseuduonymous Bosch, the New York Times best selling author of The Secret Series and more
- Epaminondas, who has also reviewed books such as Chrysalis and Metoulas Echo by Richard Romanus