He's convinced he committed murder.
Can he handle the truth?
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About Mirror Me
Eddie Asher arrives at Hudson Valley Psychiatric Hospital panicked that he may have murdered his brother’s fiancée, Lucy, with whom he shared a profound kinship. What has Pär, whom Eddie calls his Other, been up to? Can Dr. Richard Montgomery, a specialist in dissociative identities, decode the truth of Lucy’s fate along with Eddie’s inexplicable memories of another man’s life?
About the Author
I am an author and psychotherapist specializing in trauma and racial identity, with essays published in Longreads, Narratively, Mamalode, The Common, and fiction in Literary Mama and The Piltdown Review. A born-and-raised New Yorker, I now live in Montclair, New Jersey with my husband and dog. I am the mother of two college students.
Praise
“Lisa Williamson Rosenberg captures both the conflagration of slavery and its ignited sprawl through time in this stirring collection of linked stories surrounding Whittaker House... ...Embers on the Wind speaks of our connections-temporal, relative, corporeal, and spiritual-in ways that reckon with an ever-present past."
—M Shelly Conner
author of everyman, a novel
“A gorgeously layered novel, cinematic in scope and yet hauntingly intimate. Embers on the Wind crosses the barriers between the living and the dead, illuminating how intergenerational trauma reverberates through history…”
—Marco Rafalà, author of How Fires End
“Mirror Me is an exquisitely rendered meditation on race, family, and memory. With stylish prose and tender storytelling, Williamson Rosenberg explores what it means to have your identity divided at the root and ultimately answers the question we all have about where we truly belong.”
—Nancy Johnson, author of The Kindest Lie
“Lisa Williamson Rosenberg’s Embers on the Wind is a delight that will keep you turning pages to the very end. Her lyrical writing transports us from the 19th century Underground Railroad to the Brooklyn of today… the history is as vibrant as present-day life. The women in this book are searching for freedom and… bring us along for the magical ride.”
—Cary Barbor, Host of NPR’s Gulf Coast Life Book Club
“Mirror Me is both a riveting page-turner and a thoughtful exploration of psychological adaptation, the complexity of families, the weight (and richness) of biracial identity, and the enduring mysteries of friendship, connection, and love. You’ll stay up late to finish, but you won’t soon forget this gripping and classic tale.”
—Laura Sims, author of
Looker and How Can I Help You
“Mirror Me... is an intricately plotted and sensitive exploration of identity, race, family, and fate. Combining all the elements of a psychological thriller with deeply emotional, literary prose... Rosenberg delivers a fascinating story that keeps us reading until the very last page...”
—Lynda Cohen Loigman, bestselling author of The Matchmaker’s Gift
“...a story that pulls you in with richly drawn characters and a... plot twist that you’ll never see coming...”
—Dawn Porter, award-winning film producer and director,
John Lewis: Good Trouble
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