{"id":2439,"date":"2018-01-05T14:08:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T19:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=2439"},"modified":"2018-01-05T14:08:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T19:08:27","slug":"megan-collins-hatfields-novel-to-be-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2018\/01\/05\/megan-collins-hatfields-novel-to-be-published\/","title":{"rendered":"Megan Collins Hatfield’s novel to be published"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Megan Collins Hatfield (Poetry ’08) is publishing her\u00a0novel! \u00a0Persephone’s Sister<\/em> will be published by Touchstone, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, in spring 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

Below is a blurb of the book from Megan herself:<\/p>\n

Sixteen years ago, Sylvie\u2019s sister never came home. Persephone, out too late with the boyfriend she was forbidden to see, was missing for three days before her body was found \u2014 and her murder is still unsolved. Now Sylvie\u2019s back in town reluctantly caring for her cancer-stricken mother, Annie. Prone to unexplained Dark Days even before Persephone\u2019s death, Annie\u2019s once-close bond with Sylvie completely dissolved in the days after. To make matters worse, Persephone\u2019s boyfriend Ben is now a nurse at the cancer center where Annie is being treated. Sylvie\u2019s always believed Ben was responsible for the murder\u2014but she\u2019s also carrying her own secret guilt over the night Persephone didn\u2019t come home, guilt that\u2019s trapping her in the past while the world goes on around her. As she navigates the uncomfortably revived relationship with her mother, Sylvie begins to gently dig into the secrets that fill their house\u2014and what really happened the night Persephone died.<\/em><\/p>\n

As indicated by its title, the novel is influenced by the Greek myth of Persephone and Demeter. In particular, I was interested in the idea of what might have happened had Demeter had another daughter who was left to fend for herself in the wake of her mother’s grief over losing Persephone. <\/em><\/p>\n

Congratulations, Megan!
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Megan Collins<\/a> holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Boston University (Poetry ’08). She teaches creative writing at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts in Connecticut, and she is the Managing Editor of 3Elements Review<\/em>. A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, her work has appeared in many journals, including Off the Coast, Rattle, Spillway<\/em>, and Tinderbox Poetry Journal<\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Megan Collins Hatfield (Poetry ’08) is publishing her\u00a0novel! \u00a0Persephone’s Sister will be published by Touchstone, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, in spring 2019. Below is a blurb of the book from Megan herself: Sixteen years ago, Sylvie\u2019s sister never came home. Persephone, out too late with the boyfriend she was forbidden to see, was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[556,4165],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2439"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2451,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions\/2451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}