After Genevieve: The Pathway Home
After Genevieve is about a difficult reconnection, which challenges not only Lainey but everyone close to her. Ultimately Lainey and her father must both come to understand the importance of family and how forgiveness is their pathway to stability, happiness, and love.
Rachel Menin’s writing reminds me of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s. Both writers’ work is marked by an engaging narrative voice; strong sense of place; compelling and tightly woven narrative; and unforgettable, endearing characters. And Lainey Traynor—the headstrong, angry, plucky young protagonist of After Genevieve—is a match for Anne Shirley of Anne of Green Gables. After Genevieve is a page-turner for readers of all ages. It addresses serious issues of aging, death, abandonment, adoption, parenting (and grandparenting), and coming-of-age . . . at any age. Most of all, After Genevieve is a grace-filled lesson in hard-won friendship, love, and loyalty. Let’s just say it’s a classic!
—Sara Pritchard, author of Crackpots and Help Wanted: Female
Work in progress: Vienna Waits For You
Follow the multi-generational story of Nora, Winnie, and Sara as they maneuver through rejection, family pressures, and the impossible choices of life.