About Suzanne
I love stories! I’ve been creating them, in one form or another, since I was a little girl playing with my plastic farm animals and dreaming that one day I’d have a barn.
Fast forward a bunch of years (a couple of careers, some stints as head of a nonprofit, two kids, and a move from the city to the suburbs to the mountains) and I’m still writing stories!
Seeds of the Pomegranate
SEEDS OF THE POMEGRANATE is set in Sicily and New York City at the turn of the twentieth century. It is the story of Mimi Inglese, a young artist who immigrates to the United States and is immediately brought into a counterfeiting operation. Seeds is, at its heart, a story about being true to yourself and finding a place to belong.
SEEDS is based on the story of my grandfather’s family. His mother, aunt, grandparents and great grandmother arrived at Ellis Island in 1906. He was born 5 years later. When my grandfather was 11, his two younger brothers, his great-grandmother and his aunt died in a suspicious tenement fire. He suffered disfiguring scars but didn’t talk about it to his four daughters or grandchildren. After my grandfather died at 97, I started wondering about that fire. I found a front page article about it in the New York Times and I was hooked.
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