{"id":778,"date":"2011-07-06T16:10:20","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T20:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melissanewman.net\/?page_id=778"},"modified":"2012-03-22T21:59:02","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T01:59:02","slug":"hamburg-journal-lexington","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.melissanewman.net\/?page_id=778","title":{"rendered":"Hamburg Journal, Lexington"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lexington native to launch second novel at Joseph-Beth Booksellers June 25<\/h3>\n

Lexington-born native and novelist Melissa Newman has been invited to Joseph-Beth Booksellers to share her<\/p>\n

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Melissa Newman<\/p><\/div>\n

latest novel, House of Cleaving released in June by Whiskey Creek Press, with Fayette County book lovers. The event will be Saturday, June 25 beginning at 2 p.m. with a reading and discussion.<\/p>\n

Newman, who spent a portion of her childhood living on Judy Lane, a familiar street off Broadway here in Lexington, says her newest work actually includes settings from those homes and sidewalks.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember Lexington fondly and especially Judy Lane,\u201d Newman said. \u201cIt\u2019s no wonder some of those memories keep finding their way onto my keyboard.\u201d<\/p>\n

House of Cleaving is written in Newman\u2019s favorite prose \u2013 fiction. Her first book, Sister Blackberry released in 2010 by Whiskey Creek Press, has enjoyed much success and Newman is happy to have gathered fans along the way, many from Central Kentucky.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince my first book, Sister Blackberry, was released I have met so many wonderful people in Central Kentucky and Lexington and I have been invited all over the state to book clubs and readers\u2019 groups. These thoughtful people have become good friends. I cherish my loyal readers and hope they like House of Cleaving as much as they enjoyed Sister Blackberry.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>House of Cleaving is the story of Annie, a woman who has truly lost everything \u2013 her son to a car crash in which she was driving, then a year later her mother to breast cancer. She wants to leave her small town and the painful memories there but there\u2019s one problem \u2013 the house she thought she owned actually belongs to ten of her aunts and uncles, most of them estranged. Annie must travel outside her comfort zone and gather signatures from the family in order to move forward with the sale of her home. In doing so, she meets a colorful and sometimes crazy cast of characters who, above everything else tell her deep, dark Cleaving secrets, including a family murder, which involves her mother who she had always been viewed as quiet and passive.<\/p>\n

The idea for Cleaving came about like most other Newman novel ideas \u2013 with just one small seed.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, the beginning of the book really did happen,\u201d Newman said. \u201cFaced with a choice to find an entire family which had been splintered for decades or just walk away, I did the latter. Annie Cleaving, much braver than I, moved forward into a fictional account of what I imagined the journey might have been had I taken it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Newman is already hard at work on her third and fourth novels, \u201cDaddy\u2019s Girls,\u201d scheduled for a spring 2012 release and The Bridge, with a yet-to-be-announced release date.<\/p>\n

Another summer book launch event will take place at Carmichael\u2019s Bookstore, the Frankfort Avenue location, July 9 <\/sup>at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n

For more information about Melissa\u2019s work go to www.melissanewman.net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lexington native to launch second novel at Joseph-Beth Booksellers June 25 Lexington-born native and novelist Melissa Newman has been invited to Joseph-Beth Booksellers to share her latest novel, House of Cleaving released in June by Whiskey Creek Press, with Fayette County book lovers. The event will be Saturday, June 25 beginning at 2 p.m. with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":572,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissanewman.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissanewman.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissanewman.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissanewman.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissanewman.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissanewman.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissanewman.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/778\/revisions\/1006"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissanewman.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissanewman.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}