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Aftermath of Dreaming

A Novel

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Hypnotic and beautifully written, Aftermath of Dreaming is an incandescent first novel of odern life and love.

Other than the little problem that she is waking up screaming in the middle of the night, life is wonderful for Yvette Broussard. Her jewelry-design career is taking off, she's back with her sort-of boyfriend, and, best of all, she no longer thinks about her once-in-a-lifetime love, international movie star Andrew Madden. Until a chance encounter with him changes everything.

Swept up by memories of their complex relationship, Yvette is plunged into an obsession with Andrew that ultimately forces her to confront the past she thought she had left behind. At the same time, she is juggling the demands of her bride-to-be sister and her male best friend, who is jealous of other men, and thoughts of her estranged father.

Set against the glittering worlds of Los Angeles and New York, and told with both humor and pathos, Aftermath of Dreaming explores the universal themes of abandonment, forgiveness, and letting go.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 23, 2006
      A southern belle gone awry, Yvette Broussard admits to "some Daddy issues"—the ultimate understatement of this honestly written but cringe-inducing debut novel. Twenty-nine years old and finally making it as a jewelry designer in Los Angles, Yvette is afloat. But she's still mourning her father's decades-past disappearance and her mother's death three years earlier, and she wakes up screaming from nightmares more often than not. When she sees her ex-lover, movie star Andrew Madden (29 years her senior), at a movie premier, her world falls into breathless disarray. Segue into 350 pages of pathos detailing her self-destructive on-again-off-again 10-year relationship with controlling, remote, seductive, unavailable Andrew. Beginning with their first liaison, when she was a starving 18-year-old artist/restaurant hostess in New York, fresh from the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, Michel charts the lovesick obsession that brings Yvette winging across the country to join Andrew and keeps her waiting drunkenly by the phone. Though Michel conjures a credible voice for her unfortunate protagonist, watching Yvette waste her life and self-esteem is like witnessing a slow-motion train wreck.

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