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Wifey: Caribbean Mystery@A Dallas Farmer's Market

Inching in2 city blacktop on ballet flats,careening kinetic cornucopia of sight/scent/all sound. Looking 4 the bruisings--in the wrong place:

Wifey: Wedding Red Silk, Shiraz, & The Oceanic

Wedding red silk ribboning in saltwater wafts; gold thread edges winking, waving; then crisp Shiraz & a murky mystery rising, pooling 'round:

Wifey: Description

A sensory, lyrical & haunting, multinational tale of twists in a young, sticky marriage--from L.A. to Dallas--& raw power/fresh secrets/fate:

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"A powerfully written exploration of the rites of power." -Kirkus Reviews

Wifey

"...and underneath a white chef's apron peeked out a matching tan suit, and corresponding grey and tan tie. There was a line of sweat running along one side of his face, and beads of perspiration about the visible portion of his forehead...the picture was of a moment--a clearly snapped sliver of time when he wasn't ready--as it was blurred about the hands, and his mouth was slightly open...smiling, as if pleasantly surprised. That was what stirred P.V. the deepest..."

Wifey

"[H]e was leaning, eyes-shut forward...He knew and was afraid of what it was and he wanted to stamp it out--jam at it with a boot and be done with it--that thing he shaking, believed it to be. But he knew he could not--that it was real, and that it would hauling, take him. He rose to his feet, an unsteady, broken down crewman..."

Wifey

**Description: A mystical, lyrical and haunting, psychological thriller that careens along the unexpected twists and dark turns in the tenuous marriage between a 22-year-old, primarily Asian, Miami-born daughter of well-heeled, immigrant professors and a 25-year-old, orphaned African-American man from the hard scrabble of Los Angeles, and their relationship's journey from L.A. to the suburbs of Dallas. "Wifey", a work of contemporary fiction--that also includes other diverse and multinational characters--highlights a variety of sociopolitical/sociocultural issues, inclusive of domestic violence, sustainability, racism, xenophobia, class divide, and spirituality, using the universalizing backdrop of food, and spotlights the smacking differentials within individual power, the hair-raising undertow of relationship secrets, and the prickling chill of unforeseen fates.**

Wifey

"...[she] thought deeply for moments, idly tracing a teardrop of condensation falling quickly down the side...she watched the bright red liquid settle against the rind of the whole pieces of citrus fruit, as they rested in the glass. Her fave part of the drink was sucking down the sweet-sour flesh steeped in the wine at its end in the vessel. But--she wasn't nearly there to the bottom. She sighed and wondered for a moment why life always seemed that way lately--taking so long to get to the innermost part..."

Wifey

"She glowed again from the sweet skin of her face, after she lilted the imitation of her mum's accent, falling almost out of breath with the rush of Rhys so close to her..."

Wifey

**Description: A mystical, lyrical and haunting, psychological thriller that careens along the unexpected twists and dark turns in the tenuous marriage between a 22-year-old, primarily Asian, Miami-born daughter of well-heeled, immigrant professors and a 25-year-old, orphaned African-American man from the hard scrabble of Los Angeles, and their relationship's journey from L.A. to the suburbs of Dallas. "Wifey", a work of contemporary fiction--that also includes other diverse and multinational characters--highlights a variety of sociopolitical/sociocultural issues, inclusive of domestic violence, sustainability, racism, xenophobia, class divide, and spirituality, using the universalizing backdrop of food, and spotlights the smacking differentials within individual power, the hair-raising undertow of relationship secrets, and the prickling chill of unforeseen fates.**