Comments on: Our Mission and History http://www.firstpersonarts.org Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:15:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Janet Mason http://www.firstpersonarts.org/about-fpa/our-mission-and-history/comment-page-1/#comment-4267 Janet Mason Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:13:56 +0000 http://www.firstpersonarts.org/?page_id=4095#comment-4267 Hi -- I am the Philadelphia author of an autobiographical fiction novel, Hitching To Nirvana, just published by Cycladic Press. I am also a poet (winner of the first City Paper poetry prize and memoirist). I'm looking for ways to promote my novel -- readings, panels, etc. and thought I would contact you. The brief description of my novel is below. Many thanks. Janet Hitching To Nirvana is a novel of midlife and adolescence. Adrianne, a 45 year old photographer, has been running from her past all of her adult life. When time calls for her to care for her elderly father and she returns to the working class tract house neighborhood where she grew up, the news that her old high school best friend has died resurrects the ghosts from her adolescence in the 70s. The girls are modern Maenads – shining, wild and doomed, trying to escape their soul deadening lives with alcohol, sex, and drugs. When Adrianne hits turbulence in midlife – her long-term relationship hanging by a thread, a new love interest beckoning, her job soon to be nonexistent – she finds that she must return to the past before she can go on. Hi — I am the Philadelphia author of an autobiographical fiction novel, Hitching To Nirvana, just published by Cycladic Press. I am also a poet (winner of the first City Paper poetry prize and memoirist).
I’m looking for ways to promote my novel — readings, panels, etc. and thought I would contact you. The brief description of my novel is below. Many thanks. Janet

Hitching To Nirvana is a novel of midlife and adolescence. Adrianne, a 45 year old photographer, has been running from her past all of her adult life. When time calls for her to care for her elderly father and she returns to the working class tract house neighborhood where she grew up, the news that her old high school best friend has died resurrects the ghosts from her adolescence in the 70s. The girls are modern Maenads – shining, wild and doomed, trying to escape their soul deadening lives with alcohol, sex, and drugs. When Adrianne hits turbulence in midlife – her long-term relationship hanging by a thread, a new love interest beckoning, her job soon to be nonexistent – she finds that she must return to the past before she can go on.

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