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According to Mayan tradition, if you whisper your troubles to the Worry Dolls, they will do the worrying instead of you--therefore, it follows that Worry Dolls are the keepers of a great many secrets . . . On the eve of the end of the world--according to the Mayan calendar--Mari Guarez Roselli's secrets are being unraveled by her daughter, Lu. Lu's worry dolls are at-capacity as she tries to outrun the ghosts from her past--including loved ones stolen on 9/11--by traveling through her mother's homeland of Guatemala, to discover the painful reasons behind her own dysfunctional childhood, and why she must trust in the magic of the legend.…mehr

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According to Mayan tradition, if you whisper your troubles to the Worry Dolls, they will do the worrying instead of you--therefore, it follows that Worry Dolls are the keepers of a great many secrets . . . On the eve of the end of the world--according to the Mayan calendar--Mari Guarez Roselli's secrets are being unraveled by her daughter, Lu. Lu's worry dolls are at-capacity as she tries to outrun the ghosts from her past--including loved ones stolen on 9/11--by traveling through her mother's homeland of Guatemala, to discover the painful reasons behind her own dysfunctional childhood, and why she must trust in the magic of the legend.
Autorenporträt
Amy Impellizzeri is a reformed corporate litigator, former start-up exec, and award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction. After spending a decade at one of the top law firms in the country, Amy left to advocate for working women, eventually landing at a VC-backed start-up company, Hybrid Her (named by ForbesWoman as a top website for women in 2010 and 2011), while writing her first novel, Lemongrass Hope, named a 2014 IndieFab Book of the Year Bronze Winner (romance). Her sophomore novel, Secrets of Worry Dolls, was an Editor's Pick in Foreword Reviews magazine. Amy's third novel, The Truth About Thea, was an inaugural pick for Francis Ford Coppola Winery's Book & Bottles. Her novel In Her Defense was compared to Big Little Lies with "crackling courtroom drama" by Kirkus Reviews in a starred review. Amy's first nonfiction book, Lawyer Interrupted, was published by the American Bar Association and has been featured in TheAtlantic.com, Above the Law, ABC27, and more. The follow up, How to Leave the Law, coauthored with Harvard-trained lawyer turned professor, Liz Brown, has been featured in Bloomberg Law, Boston Business Journal, and more. Amy is a Tall Poppy Writer, past president of the Women's Fiction Writers Association, and faculty member for Drexel University's MFA in creative writing program. Her essays and articles have appeared in the Huffington Post, Writer's Digest, Scary Mommy, ABA's Law Practice Today, and Skirt! magazine, among more. Amy currently lives in rural Pennsylvania, where she works and plays and keeps up on all of the latest research confirming that large volumes of coffee are indeed good for you.