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Cold: Essays on Love, Faith, Family and Other Dangerous Pursuits

Cold: Essays on Love, Faith, Family and Other Dangerous Pursuits

Cold: Essays on Love, Faith, Family and Other Dangerous Pursuits

Cold: Essays on Love, Faith, Family and Other Dangerous Pursuits

Overview

Victoria Dougherty comes from the ultimate Cold War family - daring escapes, backyard firing squads, communist snitches, bowlfuls of goulash, gargoyles, gray skies and bone-chilling winters.In Cold, Dougherty writes essays with humor and raw soul. About the heart-rending stories she grew up hearing at her dinner table and the two-hanky drama that played on in her home. She ponders how her family's bad luck - so bad her parents dubbed it a curse - against all reason became a force for good in her life.More on Cold...WordPress, the blogging platform that hosts some 70 million blogs worldwide, has singled out Ms. Dougherty's blog, also called Cold, as one of their top Recommended Blogs by writers or about writing.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780997465709
Publisher: Wilderness Press
Publication date: 07/06/2016
Pages: 258
Product dimensions: 5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.58(d)

About the Author

Victoria Dougherty is the author of The Bone Church. She writes fiction, drama and essays that revolve around lovers, killers, curses and destinies.
Her work has been published or profiled in the New York Times, USA Today, The International Herald Tribune and elsewhere.
Her blog - COLD - features her short essays on faith, family, love and writing. WordPress, the blogging platform that hosts some 72
million blogs worldwide has singled out COLD as one of the top 50 Recommended Blogs on writers and writing.
Currently, Ms. Dougherty lives with her family in Charlottesville, VA and has recently completed The Hungarian, her second in a series of Cold War themed historical thrillers.
Follow COLD at www.victoriadougherty.wordpress.com
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