title: Audrey: A Book of Love
author:  Beate Sigriddaughter 
description: <span>Beate Sigriddaughter's</span><span><span></span></span><span>writing is fearless and lovely all at once. Her new novel,<span></span><i>AUDREY: A BOOK OF<span></span></i>LOVE, examines our most precious, (and often all too fleeting), emotion in an honest, lyrical, and forthright way.Sigriddaughter's language is musical, her characters spring from the page fully formed. We want to know them. We want to embrace and protect them in their vulnerability and honesty.</span><br /> <span></span><br /> <span>--Joani Reese, Editor,<span></span><i>MadHat Lit</i><span></span>and author of three books, including the new collection<span></span><i>Night Chorus</i></span><br /><br /><span>What is love ? Beate Sigriddaughter explores this timeless question with a confident, wise, and poetic hand in her intimate story of Andrea, a young woman riven by her simultaneous passion for two lovers of opposite genders--and a steadfast commitment to her own personal power and freedom. Compelled to trust in love's profound truths, follow her hungry heart, and embrace life fully, Andrea must navigate strong, perilous rapids. </span><br /> <span></span><br /> <span>--Richard Mahler, author of <i>Stillness: Daily Gifts of Solitude </i>and <i>The Jaguar's Shadow: Searching for a Mythic Cat</i>, among other books</span><br /><br /><i>Audrey: A Book of Love<span></span><em><span>is a</span></em></i><em><span><i></i></span>story of tender and long-suffering love confused with rage and powerlessness, youth and healing, loss of craft, broken promises to oneself, and endless misunderstandings. It's also a<span></span>compelling and masterfully written tale<span> </span>of the<span></span>equally destructive powers of jealously and alcohol, and the restorative power of love and forgiveness, especially for oneself.<br /> <br /> <span>--Susan Clay, Librarian, University of Georgia, Athens, GA</span><br /><br /><i><span>Audrey</span></i><span><span></span></span><span>is a bold and compelling novel. Sigriddaughter gives us insight into the world of a woman who loves both a man and a woman, while she strives to be true to herself and her art.<span></span></span><br /> <span><span></span></span><br /> <span>--<span><span>Elise Stuart, Poet Laureate, Silver City, New Mexico</span></span></span><br /> <span><span></span></span><br /><br /><i><span>Audrey: A Book of Love</span></i><span>is an important look at intricate facets of love as it surprises, delights, challenges, sometimes defeats, and always honors our lives.</span><br /> <span></span><br /> <span>--<span>Alex Marcoux, award winning novelist and New Thought author</span></span><br /> <span></span>
  						    	
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