I write. I create. I perform. I treat trauma and relationships. I care about the world.
I wrote a novel. I’m looking for an agent and seeking a publisher. Here is the synopsis.
When I Was Better (synopsis)
When I Was Better, set in Hungary and Canada, chronicles the twenty-year relationship of István and Teréza, from the Nazi invasion and the Soviet occupation to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Battered by private betrayals and public humiliations, the young couple learns that laughing at the absurd is a saving grace until separation and shame test their endurance and their love. Told in reverse chronology, moving between Winnipeg and Budapest, the novel explores how an autocracy corrupts its citizens by reviling truth and making survival with dignity a transgressive act. A moving chronicle of a refugee crisis from a different time, the theme of how intergenerational trauma impacts families is even more relevant today. It is written for readers of Irène Némorovsky’s Suite Française and Sofi Oksanen’s Purge.