Embedded Files
by Sandra Moran
by Sandra Moran
It begins with a bus crash.
Maggie is a funeral director from Indiana who lives a double life. Bug is a ten-year-old boy in the Pennsylvania foster care system who is sent to live with an aunt he doesn’t know. Jimmy is a former paramedic and prescription drug addict on his way to meet a woman he met online who thinks he’s a successful doctor. Helen is a Chicago insurance investigator who is leaving her marriage in search of the woman she wants to be.
Four strangers, all traveling to Boston in search of better lives, are tied together in ways they don’t even realize. Each are trying to fill the void of what’s missing in their lives. Sometimes it takes a tragedy to overcome all that we lack.
GCLS Awards
Winner
2016 Ann Bannon Popular Choice Award
2016 GCLS Tee Corinne Outstanding Cover Design Award
Rainbow Awards
Runner Up
2015 Best Lesbian Contemporary General Fiction
2015 Best Lesbian Book
“With rich characters and movable landscapes (Moran was spot on in capturing the stop-start of a long, cross-country bus trip), this novel is a must read. As I closed the book after the last page, I was left wondering about my own insularity, my own unconsciousness.” — Review by July Westhale, Lambda Literary Review
“All We Lack gives us insight into the human psyche and the human condition. This story from award-winning author, Sandra Moran, starts out simply, eventually unfolding to reveal a rich tapestry of a tale, which takes up residence in the reader’s soul.” — Anna Furtado, Books on Fire
“Outstanding writing skills. Moran has those in spades! It is remarkably obvious that Moran pours over her writing and contemplates the choice of each word she adds to the story. Nothing is out of place. Nothing is superfluous. If a word is on the page, there is a reason for that word to be there. You won’t find anything that can be considered “filler” in All We Lack. Every scene builds tension and adds to the story. Flashbacks are appropriately revealing. Dialogue is natural and believable. Scenic descriptions are detailed and nuanced. Really, it’s quite wonderful.” — Carleen Spry, Frivolous Views
“The writing is, as always, imaginative and immaculate, every word considered and placed. The timeline is complex – a series of flashbacks, overlapping, layered and convoluted. But they flow from the page exactly how our thoughts flash across interconnected life experiences. The concept intrigues, pulls you forward and keeps you glued throughout.” — Velvet Lounger, Curve Magazine
Details
Details
Bink Books
252 pp ● 5.5×8.5
$15.95 (pb) ● $8.95 (eb)
ISBN 978-1-939562-92-0 (pb)
FICTION – Literary
Sandra Moran was an author and assistant adjunct professor of anthropology at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas. A native Kansan, she had worked professionally as a newspaper journalist, a political speech writer, and an archaeological tour manager. In her novels, she strove to create flawed characters struggling to find themselves within the cultural constructs of gender, religion, and sexuality. Despite being an avid marathon/ultra marathon runner, gym rat, and living healthy, she lost her battle to an aggressive cancer in November 2015, just weeks shy of her forty-seventh birthday.
HUSH Library Podcast #75 – Sandra Moran
“She Creates Stories with Roots in Culture and History,” by John Long, Camp
“Sandra Moran: anthropology professor and writer extraordinaire,” by Francais Healy, The Campus Ledger
“Readorama: Two authors with Kansas City ties talk on their books this week,”The Kansas City Star
“Inky Inspiration – Sandra Moran,” March 2014, Interview by Jody Klaire
“Blogspot – 6 questions for Sandra Moran”, June 14, 2014, Lesbian Reading Room
“Episode 89 – Sandra Moran”, June 7, 2014, The Cocktail Hour
“It’s Our Community – Sandra Moran,” hosted by Mary D. Cohen
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