what you thought you knew…

Fiction to challenge

  • "Rusnak does not waste a single word, and she is clear where she wants her story to take her reader."

    Zev Good, author of All About the Benjamins

  • "honest and provocative"

    Margaret Terry, author of Dear Deb

  • "Alanna Rusnak is a wordsmith. She is both mistress and master of her craft."

    Geraldine Mac Donald, author of Sumac Summer

  • "Rusnak manages to write with a naked rawness that brings out the true depths of family and spirituality in a way that pulls the reader in."

    William F. Aicher, author of Calibration 74

  • "She writes with such illustrious clarity and complexity..."

    Liv Archer, author of Sixth Sense and owner of Winter Writer Books

  • "Rusnak is a master wordsmith who weaves non-linear sequencing, alternating perspectives, and complex characters to create a nuanced yet heart-wrenching book."

    Amber Kuipers, author of When Grey Came to Stay

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…but so is the beginning

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