{"id":8762053951725,"title":"Werewolf Hamlet","handle":"werewolf-hamlet","description":"\u003ch6\u003eComing February 18, 2025. 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Mom and Dad are going to default on the mortgage. Older sister Hannah is fed up and ready to move herself from Los Angeles to Maine. Little sister Sidney doesn't really get what's going on. 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She directs the creative writing program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and teaches in the Antioch MFA Program in Los Angeles. She is the author of the picture book\u003cem\u003e Ernestine’s Milky Way.\u003c\/em\u003e She also wrote the Maggie Valley Trilogy, which includes \u003cem\u003eGentle’s Holler, Louisiana’s Song,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eJessie’s Mountain.\u003c\/em\u003e Her first novel, \u003cem\u003eOffsides\u003c\/em\u003e, was a New York Public Library Pick for the Teen Age. 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Why? Because as a classic “play within a play,” it would allow him to act out his own intense feelings while mirroring what he sees his increasingly secretive, angry, drug-and-alcohol abusing teenage brother, Liam, becoming. Meanwhile, money problems force the four Gettlefinger sibs and their frazzled, underemployed parents out of their house and into a one bedroom apartment. The pressure mounts to crisis level when Liam fails to come home after one of his nighttime excursions, but a cathartic whirl of rash acts, straight talk, and, yes, onstage howling does ultimately lead to cautiously optimistic outcomes for Angus and his family. The author closes with resources for teen alcoholics and their concerned family members, but not before delivering a story that is rich in wise insights, comical and emotionally wrenching moments in turn, imaginary dialogues with Lon Chaney and other silent film era stars, and colorful quotes from the Bard drawn in large part from the online Shakespearean Insulter. 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She directs the creative writing program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and teaches in the Antioch MFA Program in Los Angeles. She is the author of the picture book\u003cem\u003e Ernestine’s Milky Way.\u003c\/em\u003e She also wrote the Maggie Valley Trilogy, which includes \u003cem\u003eGentle’s Holler, Louisiana’s Song,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eJessie’s Mountain.\u003c\/em\u003e Her first novel, \u003cem\u003eOffsides\u003c\/em\u003e, was a New York Public Library Pick for the Teen Age. 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Why? Because as a classic “play within a play,” it would allow him to act out his own intense feelings while mirroring what he sees his increasingly secretive, angry, drug-and-alcohol abusing teenage brother, Liam, becoming. Meanwhile, money problems force the four Gettlefinger sibs and their frazzled, underemployed parents out of their house and into a one bedroom apartment. The pressure mounts to crisis level when Liam fails to come home after one of his nighttime excursions, but a cathartic whirl of rash acts, straight talk, and, yes, onstage howling does ultimately lead to cautiously optimistic outcomes for Angus and his family. The author closes with resources for teen alcoholics and their concerned family members, but not before delivering a story that is rich in wise insights, comical and emotionally wrenching moments in turn, imaginary dialogues with Lon Chaney and other silent film era stars, and colorful quotes from the Bard drawn in large part from the online Shakespearean Insulter. 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