House of Fragile Dreams
Still recovering from a divorce and the death of her parents, Rachel is living in the large house she grew up in. Upon meeting an African American veteran and his five-year-old son, she begins to hope for a new life. But when her estranged brother shows up demanding to move in to her back cottage, he threatens to ruin everything. He is disturbed, gun-obsessed, and, as Rachel discovers, involved with people who threaten much more than her dream of a happy home. Addressing themes of love, hate, social fracturing, and violent white supremacy, House of Fragile Dreams is not just a suspenseful love story; it’s a poignant reflection of a country in troubled times.
About Anne Moose (Orange County, California Author)
A resident of Mission Viejo, California, Anne Moose makes her living as a technical writer. However, she has a background as an editor and small book publisher in Berkeley California, where she earned a degree in Social/Cultural Anthropology from U.C. Berkeley.
She has written and edited a number of books, including: Berkeley, U.S.A., by Anne Moose; Dakota Diaspora: Memoirs of a Jewish Homesteader, by Sophie Trupin; and Proteus Rising, by Peter Dingus. She has contributed to multiple writing anthologies, including, most recently, It’s all in the Story: California: An Anthology of Short Fiction, edited by D. P. Lyle.
She published her first novel, Arkansas Summer, in 2017. In June 2021, she published her second: House of Fragile Dreams.
