The novel will be released in 2023.
It’s the early 1970s in Chicago and twenty-three year old Antionette Maria Theresa Margiani, “Toni”, is a social worker who lives on Chicago’s north side. After returning to her apartment from a trip, she finds she has been burglarized and nearly all her belongings stolen. She places a telephone call to report the crime and Lieutenant Tom Harrison, a detective with the Chicago Police Department, responds to the call. The result of that meeting sets both Tom and Toni on parallel paths. Toni’s Italian aunts send Toni to St. Mary’s Abbey for respite where she meets Sister Catherine and learns long held family secrets.
Karen Lauritzen
Karen has just completed her second book and first work of fiction titled Just The Right Amount of Wrong. The story is set in Chicago in the early 1970’s and reflects the closed club that was Mayor Richard J. Daley’s political machine. Lauritzen seasons the story with snippets of the 1970’s: Fellini’s 81/2, the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, birth control pills sold in discs, shag rugs and the Zodiac, particularly surrealist artist Salvador Dali’s zodiac prints.
You may check nothingvanishes.com, for information on the memoir that was released in 2012, Nothing Vanishes, Memoir of a Life Transformed.
Karen also writes short stories, poetry and essays. She is a member of NC Writers Network and Triangle Writers Group. She lives in North Carolina.