Sleep Walk Society

by Kendare Blake

Overview

In the spring of 2002,childhood friends, Violet Monroe and Terran Ingram are headed home from their first year in college. It has been an eventful year; Terran has become the new beauty queen on campus and Violet well....Then of course there was the 9/11 attack on America. Both are returning home with thoughts of reuniting with their other best friend, Joey, very rich and underachieving and madly in love with Terran. Their hopes of a carefree summer are dashed forever by the events that take place. Violet is forced to re-examine her world. She discovers cold truths about the state of her parent's marriage. She watches Terran submit to her mother's ambitions by suppressing her misery in a twisted romance with Joey. Both learn that despite having been in love with Terran for years She is not what Joey really wants. With the help of Brandon, Joey's charismatic cousin, who is visiting for the summer, Violet begins to understand the nature of choices. Things change and relationships die.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780982140734
Publisher:	P.R.A. Publishing
Publication date:	08/01/2010
Series:	Sleep Walk Society Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	172
File size:	245 KB
Age Range:	16 Years

About the Author

Kendare Blake grew up in the small city of Cambridge, Minnesota. She is a graduate of Ithaca College, in Ithaca, New York and received a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from Middlesex University in London, England. She loves to travel, is an advocate for animals, and cheats a lot when she plays Final Fantasy. Adopted from South Korea at the age of seven months, she arrived with the following instruction: "Feed her chocolate." Though not medically advisable, she and her parents are eternally grateful for this advice.

Kendare Blake's short fiction has appeared in numerous markets, including The Momaya Press Annual Review and Mirror Dance Magazine, among others. Her debut novel, Sleepwalk Society(2010), deals with four friends coming of age post 9/11. Anna Dressed In Blood (2011), and GIRL OF NIGHTMARES (2012), are YA horror chronicling the strange life of Cassio Lowood, a teenage ghost hunter who falls in love with the dead girl he was supposed to kill.