Maiden Leap

Name: Maiden Leap
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: CM Harris
ISBN: 9781705272800

Author: CM Harris

Narrator: Melissa Moran

Unabridged: 8 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/17/2020

Categories: Fiction, Family Life, Lgbtq+

Synopsis

Kate, a devoted wife and mother, has lived her whole life under the mythic bluff called Maiden Leap in a scenic river town. Her contented life is turned inside out when her former high school girlfriend Lucy returns to town as a graduate of a gay conversion therapy program. Now Kate must cope with her guilt and anger over how she and Lucy parted.

As Kate struggles to balance her marriage to her reliable husband and her friendship with mercurial Lucy, their old flame is rekindled and a town secret is uncovered. Kate must learn how to navigate a new world of possibilities, confront her moral conundrums, and solve the age-old mystery surrounding Maiden Leap.

Contains mature themes.

About CM Harris

CM Harris is the author of novels The Children of Mother Glory and Enter Oblivion. Her short stories and essays appear in Oprah Winfrey's O Magazine, Escape Artists' Pseudopod podcast, SALiT Magazine, Harrington Literary Quarterly, and the anthology Queer Voices: Poetry, Prose, and Pride. Her screenplay The Cost of Glory recently received a Gold Award for Best Concept Script and a Silver Award for Best Feature Script from the Queen Palm Film Festival.

CM Harris attended The School of Art Institute of Chicago and The Loft Literary Center of Minneapolis. She lives in Minneapolis with her wife and their twins and is the owner of marketing firm Carbon Creative. When she is not writing or designing, she is the lead singer of the indie band Hothouse Weeds.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Amy

Must Read! Wicasa Bluffs is a quaint, and perhaps, claustrophobic town on the banks of the St. Croix river in the upper Midwest, the kind of town where it can be both a comfort and a curse that everybody knows your business. Kate Larson, married with two kids, and Lucy Van Buren, an indie rocker who......more

Goodreads review by Philip

Maiden Leap is one of those stories that is so uncompromisingly, originally, beautifully itself that you can't compare it to another. I'm lucky enough to have read a few of author C.M. Harris's novels and this is true of all of them, but Maiden Leap is perhaps the greatest book by Harris yet—so good......more