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by G.M. Monks
by G.M. Monks
Iola Boggs escapes a small-minded village and is proud that she becomes a non-combat pilot during World War II. Iola meets Jim Lewis, who never served in the war but contributed in his own way to the war effort. They marry in post-war Philadelphia and raise a family against the backdrop of the paranoid era of Joseph McCarthy. Their differences plus a need for fulfillment propels them away from each other. Illicit liaisons and grief bring them life-changing insights. Part historical, part family saga, Iola’s story is of resilience, diversity, and self-discovery.
“Life just happens throughout much of this extremely well-written novel told in short chapters in staccato-like stream-of-consciousness thinking/dialogue, alternating between Jim and Iola’s point-of-view. Monks has an acerbic wit and is unflinching in her portrayal of these deeply flawed individuals (and their observations of others) who love each other in their own way.” — Historical Novel Society
Details
Details
Bink Books
270 pp. ● 6×9
$17.95 (pb) ● $9.99 (eb)
ISBN 978-1-945805-95-0 (pb)
FICTION / Family & Relationships
FICTION / Family Life / General
Publication date: April 2019
G. M. Monks, a native Californian, now lives in Pennsylvania. Her work has appeared in the Best of Choeofpleirn Press, The Militant Grammarian, L’Esprit Literary Review, Birdland Journal, The Hunger, Vine Leaves Literary Journal, The RavensPerch, Kansas City Voices, and elsewhere. Awards with publication include finalist in Ben Nyberg Fiction Contest 2022, finalist in the 2020 Breakwater Review Fiction Contest, and runner-up in the 2016 Big Wonderful Press Funny Poem contest. She was a finalist in the Arts and Letters 2020 Unclassifiables Fiction Contest and received an honorable mention in the 2016 New Millennium Writings Award competition. Two of her stories were nominated for Best American Short Stories 2023, one of which was also nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her debut novel, Iola O, was nominated for the 2020 PEN/Hemingway Award for New Fiction. For more about her, visit gmmonks.blog.
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