“Vicki Salloum’s latest novel, Waiting for You at Midnight, is at once a paean to enduring love and the sacrifices that come along with it… Narrated in a voice that is candid, warm, conversational, and familiar, readers will instantly feel at home with this novel’s time-less and universal themes, its flawed but lovable char-acters, and its gritty and realistic sense of place. Waiting for You at Midnight is truly a book that is not to be missed.”—David Armand, Author of My Mother’s House
“Waiting for You at Midnight captivates from the first page to a startling ending we won’t forget. With a lyrical and compassionate eye, author Vicki Salloum leads us through the landscape of loss as her characters struggle to heal their broken lives. We see how grief and desperation lead to destructive choices even as we long to be saved… Through unexpected twists and turns, we fall in love with Salloum’s everyday warriors who endure life’s tragedies but never give up fighting for their souls.”—Elaine Mansfield, Author of Leaning into Love: A Spiritual Journey through Grief
“Painfully honest, funny, and heart-breaking, Waiting for You at Midnight is a story of the lives and loves of Arabella Joseph and a world of addiction. This is a New Orleans story, a woman’s story of grief, love, loneliness, and survival. Author Vicki Salloum pours a lot of heart in these pages… Arabella’s tale reminds us that we’re all in this together—reformed alcoholics, drug addicts, bank robbers, teachers, cooks, and artists—we’re all of us fragile survivors, traveling these streets in church-filled cities, looking for redemption.”—Margaret McMullan, Author of Aftermath Lounge
“In Vicki Salloum’s powerful and moving new novel, Waiting for You at Midnight, the death of the narrator’s beloved husband lays a minefield of loss, longing and addiction… the widow recounts her path through the grieving process in lyrical prose laced with evocative description and brutal honesty.”—Kate Sebeny, Author of The Last Best Thing
“This book is a tender journey, told with unflinching honesty, of a woman emerging from grief… Salloum’s evocative descriptions take the reader deep into Arabella’s world, a place of daring, remorse, forgiveness and abiding love. Highly recommended.”—Jean Ryan, Author of Lost Sister
“Waiting for You at Midnight is fiction that feels like truth. It is both a finely honed portrait of impending loss and an impressionistic landscape of dislocating grief. Vicki Salloum skillfully paints her characters, hard choices, and a long 12-step journey, in gripping detail.”—Erika Raskin, Author of Best Intentions
“Grief, guilt, loneliness, longing, denial, anger, growth, mistakes, love, and hope: all are part of Vicki Salloum’s moving and honest novel…a story of hope. Arabella, the narrator, has a rocky path. But it leads to remembering love with gratitude, along with sorrow. And it leads to learning to live with –not just survive—loss.”—Helen Reichert Lambin, Author of The Death of a Husband: Reflections for a Grieving Wife