Preparing For Doomsday - Martin, Karen
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'Why have I not heard about this before? you mean the world's going to end this year and I've only just found out!' A feeling of panic hits Evie, 'Where's my notebook? I must make a list!' Whilst Evie works through the list of things she wants to achieve before the world ends, her mother harbors a troubling secret, shared only with her best friend. After fulfilling her own ambition in Borneo, she decides the possibility of a happy future lies in her own hands ... doesn't it? This fictitional story reveals the parellel lives of a mother and daughter over a year, as they approach 'the end of the…mehr

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'Why have I not heard about this before? you mean the world's going to end this year and I've only just found out!' A feeling of panic hits Evie, 'Where's my notebook? I must make a list!' Whilst Evie works through the list of things she wants to achieve before the world ends, her mother harbors a troubling secret, shared only with her best friend. After fulfilling her own ambition in Borneo, she decides the possibility of a happy future lies in her own hands ... doesn't it? This fictitional story reveals the parellel lives of a mother and daughter over a year, as they approach 'the end of the world'. Both humerous and sad, the book will touch a range of emotions of women (and men!) of all ages.
Autorenporträt
Karen Martin is a fiction writer, collage artist and professional editor. In 2010, she published her first stories in Itch, a South African-based multimedia online journal. In 2011, she was awarded a fellowship to Syracuse University's three-year creative writing MFA program. In 2012, she was artist-in-residence at the Norman Mailer Writers Colony and the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild. In 2013, she was awarded the Allen and Nirelle Galson Prize for Fiction by Stone Canoe, a journal that showcases artists and writers with ties to Upstate New York. Karen has initiated and developed several projects for gala, including Balancing Act, a book and exhibition of South African lgbti youth life stories, and Till the Time of Trial, a booklet featuring the prison letters of lgbti and hiv/aids activist Simon Nkoli. She is the co-editor of Sex and Politics, a collection of essays, memoirs and archival documents about the South African lgbti rights movement and the anti-apartheid struggle. She is a member of the gala board of trustees.