Welcome to Barbara Monier, our new author! In Pushing the River, her third novel, a family crisis erupts when a fifteen-year-old becomes pregnant and decides to keep the baby.

Madeline describes her house as an empty shell inhabited by ghosts. She has been living alone for years, keeping to a few rooms, surrounded by the possessions of her ex-husband and grown children. Over the course of four months, people accumulate in the household one by one–including Madeline’s new love interest, who unexpectedly shows up carrying grocery bags full of his clothes.

Read more and buy now on Amazon and Amika Press!