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Spirit House by Patty Flauto, Watercolor/mixed media, © 2008

Continuum
by Nicole Hunter

Publication details to be announced

In this provocative,
disorienting novel about interpersonal dynamics in mental illness, a Midwestern family deals with a series of sudden deaths, psychic plagues, and an underage daughter’s affair with a major league baseball player. The story is told in snapshot-memories by shifting first-person narrators.

“Instead of walking a character from scene to scene in a story, there had to be some way to just—cut, cut, cut. To jump. From scene to scene. Without losing the reader. To show every aspect of a story, but only the kernel of each aspect. The core moment. Then another core moment. Then, another.
“There had to be some kind of chorus…A kind of glue or mortar that would hold together a mosaic of different moments and details…”
—from Chuck Palahniuk’s Afterword to Fight Club

Ambiguity by Patty Flauto, Watercolor/mixed media, © 2008

A parallel volume to Continuum

In the Continuum world, Uncle Jamie steps off the curb into oncoming traffic —
but in this branch of the universe, Uncle Jamie looks up — and a very different story unfolds.

Publication details to be announced

Invisible Sun by Patty Flauto, Watercolor/mixed media, © 2008

Peace in the world begins with peace in your world—within yourself and your relationships, and in the ways you perceive and react to people you meet.

I’ve developed the dialogue method Peace Through Fiction™, and am currently researching and writing the proposal for Peace Through Fiction: The Field Guide, my first nonfiction book.

Peace Through Fiction™ is a 1-2-3 dialogue method you can use with any novel, in any setting, as a simple way to increase personal and interpersonal peace.

In Peace Through Fiction, readers discuss the novel not as a literary form, but for personal and interpersonal awareness and positive growth. Characters in fiction offer us unique springboards for finding our own real-life stories, and for testing and developing new ways of relating to ourselves and other people.

Through the fictional villains, heroines, and heroes we encounter in our reading, Peace Through Fiction opens us to new ways of perceiving ourselves and other people, and helps us create new models for peace in the real world.

These are the books I’m currently working with to create Peace Through Fiction: The Field Guide:

FIGHT CLUB by Chuck Palahniuk

BELOVED by Toni Morrison

AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner

THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST by Mohsin Hamid

HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad

DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS by Walter Mosley

GALAPAGOS by Kurt Vonnegut

THE BEAUTIFUL THINGS THAT HEAVEN BEARS by Dinaw Mengestu

LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE by Laura Esquivel

THE HANDMAID’S TALE by Margaret Atwood

PARADISE OF THE BLIND by Duong Thu Huong

AMERICAN YOUTH by Phil LaMarche

ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

AFTER DARK by Haruki Murakami

HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG by Andre Dubus III

THE LIBERATED BRIDE by A.B. Yehoshua

DAUGHTER OF FORTUNE by Isabel Allende