Gauguin's Moon [Paperback]

A daughter confronts her family's secrets and a haunting dream in this evocative literary saga.

Daniella believes her lost mother is a World War II hero, but is terrorized by a dream of a war-torn jungle, raining fire. At forty, with her life and career stalled, Daniella is visited by four dead ancestors, who try to help her put her life back together. When this fails, propelled by curiosity about her recurring dream, she travels to the nuclear testing grounds at the Bikini Islands, to find out her mother's real role in the war and its aftermath.

Set against the backdrop of the Pacific Islands and California,Gauguin's Moonexplores themes of family, loss, and the search for identity. For readers of literary fiction and historical sagas, this novel offers an atmospheric and introspective journey into the heart of memory and redemption.

Laura Marellos first novelClaiming Kin(Guernica Editions 2010) was a finalist for the Paterson Prize in Fiction and nominated for the PEN/Bingham Award. Her second novel,Tenants of the Hotel Biron(Guernica Editions 2012) was given a bilingual staged reading at the Gallerie Ivana Gavardie in Paris the fall of its release. Her third novel,Maniac Drifterwas released from Guernica Editions in 2016. MarellosThe Gender of Inanimate Objects and Other Storieswas shorlisted for the Saroyan Prize from Stanford University Library. Marellos poetry chapbookBalzacs Robewas the second finalist for the Finishing Line Press New Women Writers Award. Marello has written twelve books. She has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Wallace E. Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, and a Fine Arts Work Center Provincetown Fellowship. She has benefited from residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, Millay, Montalvo and Djerassi.

Laura Marellos latest novel,Gauguins Moon, seethes with an intoxicating blend of wit, pathos, and hilarity that keeps us laughing evelóe