In this novel, twin fetuses tell the story of their mild-mannered mother who abandons her controlling husband to start fresh in a small town in upstate New York. It addresses an astonishing array of issues-independence, marriage, work, female companionship, goddess worship, pregnancy, abortion, emotional repression, sexual abuse-all in a tightly woven story that is as fanciful as it is grimly real.This is a book that reaches across more than 100 years of difference between its time and ours to affirm an eternal human need for love, with not a whit of energy lost in the translation." Aubry writes " We are Gathered Here is nothing short of a woman's manifesto.
Perks writes: "I wanted to reach back in time and find another way out for her." In the Los Angeles Times Book Review, Feb. She jumped from her third floor window three times before she succeeded in killing herself. As Perks describes in "Escaping the Ending," this novel is based on her great, great aunt Regina, who was imprisoned in her home because she had epilepsy. Regina Sartwell, a wealthy young woman with epilepsy, and Olive Honsinger, her maid, join in friendship and a fierce desire to escape Victorian conventions. They live in Santa Cruz, California with their four children. She has taught at Cornell University, Hobart and William Smith Colleges and University of California, Santa Cruz, where she is Professor of Literature and Co-Director of The Creative Writing Program, with her partner, Latin American/Latino critic Juan Poblete. She is a 2008 recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellowship Grant, five Pushcart Prize nominations and has been a resident of the Blue Mountain Center several times. She later went to high school in Middlebury, Vermont, and received her BA and MFA from Cornell University. Micah Perks grew up on a commune in the Adirondack Mountains. Martin's Press 1997), Pagan Time ( Counterpoint Press 2001), and What Becomes Us ( Outpost19 Books 2016) examine the utopian impulse in U.S. Her three books, We Are Gathered Here ( St.
Micah Perks is an American fiction writer and memoirist.
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