Tell Kate

A novel · literary fiction with a whisper of magical realism

For the rest of my life, I will live with my hands outstretched for things that are no longer there.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Kate Meyer has not lived in the butter-yellow Victorian since she was a girl. Now forty-eight, she returns in the wake of her father’s death—not to stay, but to empty the rooms, ready the house for sale, and close the door on the place for good.

But the house does not let go so easily. In the dim of the old garage, in a fort she half-remembers from childhood, Kate finds a girl named Silvie: watchful, familiar, and impossible. As the summer deepens, Silvie draws her back through the sealed rooms of her own memory, toward the September day forty years ago when her mother’s car left the road, and toward the things her father never found the words to say.

Tell Kate is a quiet novel of grief and inheritance, of the stories we bury in order to survive them, and of the tenderness that waits, patient as a house, for us to come home and finally look.

Status: complete · currently seeking representation

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The Wonder of Ordinary Magic

A novel · 2011

Bobby Weaver is a young writer with an unfinished novel, a murder mystery about two strangers hiking the Appalachian Trail who slowly fall in love. There is one complication: Bobby is in a coma, deteriorating physically while remaining painfully aware of the world around him.

As he struggles to tie up the loose ends of his final story—if only for himself and for the characters he created—glimpses of the life he is leaving behind emerge in intimate, day-in-the-life portraits of his family.

The Wonder of Ordinary Magic is steeped in symbolism and bound by family ties. This debut novel explores the quiet ways lives are connected, fractured, and renewed by love.

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