Your Rightful Home

by Alyssa Knickerbocker

Lydia was your neighbor, the childhood friend you spent all your time with. Then a lie sends Lydia running out of your front door, after which she disappears. In Your Rightful Home we follow the life of a woman from childhood to adulthood and her struggle to discover who she is in the light of a tragedy she feels she may have caused. Are the formative powers of loss insurmountable? Can a single indiscretion define a person’s entire life?

Praise for Your Rightful Home:

“Your Rightful Home starts as a vivid, lighthearted snapshot of childhood and unfolds with an economy so bright and effortless that in the end I was startled to find that I’d been considering deep and elegant ideas about complicity, parenthood and nostalgia all along. In her debut, Alyssa Knickerbocker proves herself to be a blazing new talent with a wry, generous, and achingly precise voice. I’m so delighted to have read the first book by this wonderful writer, and I’m sure I’ll be a fan of hers for life.” -Lauren Groff, author of The Monster’s of Templeton and Delicate Edible Birds

“Through a clear-eyed rendering of a childhood friendship and its tragic aftermath, Alyssa Knickerbocker’s YRH brilliantly suggests that betrayal is the rocket that launches our lives and even as our trajectories inevitably flatten, sadden and come full circle, the sense of guilt and loss burns on. Told in smooth prose shot through with iridescent observations, Knickerbocker’s generously plotted but unflinching novella provides a profound look into what we all must be carrying. This is a fearless and moving piece of work by a writer who herself is headed sky high.” – Andrew Mozina, author of The Women We’re Leaving the Men

“Alyssa Knickerbocker is the kind of writer you want to be alone with for days on end. Your Rightful Home is a sharp, surprising, and confident debut. I know that I will be delighted to ride Ms. Knickerbocker’s coattails until we are old and gray.” – Emma Straub, author of Fly-Over State

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2nd Ed. will be released April, 2010. Reviewers, send requests for review copies to lexus [at] flatmancrooked [dot] com

 

 

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LAUNCH

For just $10, you can buy a share in Alyssa’s future. As recompense for that investment, you get a signed and numbered copy of her first stand-alone book, Your Rightful Home. Buy multiple shares, get multiple copies. If you’re feeling extra generous or wondering why everyone calls you Ol’ Moneybags, the Super-Launch is for you. Feed an author. Stimulate that economy. See the button below.

Big fan of Alyssa? SUPER-LAUNCH her by using the drop-down box and get the AWP Horse Fight Poster: Limited Edition plus extra copies of Your Rightful Home to give to friends, your local library, or local bookseller. Book released April 1st. LAUNCH copies (1st ed., numbered, and signed by Alyssa) are only available while supplies last.

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This LAUNCH began February 15th. The LAUNCH sold out February 19th.

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