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Forever 51
Forever 51
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Veronica is eternally fifty-one years old with a proclivity for problematic drinking.

 

Like most hormonally challenged women negotiating the change of life, she is a hot mess. To retain her sanity, she attends weekly AA meetings and adheres to a strict diet of organic, locally-sourced, (mostly) cruelty-free human blood from the hospice facility where she works. Her life stopped being fun about a hundred years ago, right about the time her teenage daughter stole her soul and took off for California with a hot, older guy. These days, Veronica's existence is just that - an existence, as flat and empty as her own non-reflection in the bathroom mirror.


When her estranged daughter contacts her via Facebook, Veronica learns that she has one chance to escape her eternal personal summer: she must find and apologize to every one of the people she's turned into vampires in the last century. That is, if they're still out there. With raging hormones and a ticking clock, Veronica embarks on a last-ditch road trip to regain her mortality, reclaim her humanity, and ultimately, die on her own terms.

 

"Full of vampires with spray tans and menopause trying to twelve step their way to salvation, Forever 51 takes vampire fiction into terrifying new territory: middle age. A very funny, very bloody book about growing older and getting dead." - Grady Hendrix, New York Times best-selling author of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

LanguageEnglish
PublisherFawkes Press
Release dateNov 5, 2020
ISBN9781945419638
Forever 51
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Pamela Skjolsvik

Pamela Skjolsvik has been published in Creative Nonfiction, Witness, Ten Spurs, The Moment, The Dallas Morning News’ Death Penalty Blog, Writer’s Digest, CNN and in the anthology Silence Kills: Speaking Out and Saving Lives. Death Becomes Us, which began as her MFA thesis at Goucher College, won second place at The Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference and was an honorable mention in the 24th Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards. Pamela has been interviewed on several podcasts (Death! The Podcast, The Drunken Odyssey, Dan Reads Books, The Passionista’s Podcast and the Trust Tree Podcast) and was featured on NPR’s Think with Krys Boyd in 2016.In March of 2020, Pamela founded the 2020 Quarantine Book Club on Facebook to assist debut authors affected by the pandemic. The book club now has over 1400 members and was featured on Fox 4 in Dallas and in Reader’s Digest.

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