Featured Member – Cindy La Ferle

Cindy La Ferle’s essay, “Lessons from an Estate Sale,” is published in the September 2016 issue of Victoria, a national lifestyles magazine. The piece describes the process of clearing out her mother’s home after her death in 2014.
Earlier this year, Cindy launched “Something Beautiful Every Day,” an online photo diary that features her own photography paired with an uplifting quotation every morning. She’s been collecting inspirational and literary quotes since her college years, sometimes using them in her writings. “Something Beautiful Every Day” was featured in Jeanine Matlow’s column in The Detroit News Homestyle section in June.

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Invincible Summers

Invincible Summers follows Claudia Goodwin through eleven summers, from the age of six through twenty-three, as she adjusts with varying degrees of success to what it means to be a daughter, a sister, friend, and lover in a world of loss, betrayal and bad judgment. Set in a middle class suburb outside of Detroit in the 1960s and 1970s, the novel show's Claudia's pursuit to find a purpose as she struggles with feelings of rootlessness in a world torn apart by assassinations, riots, and the Vietnam War. It is a coming-of-age story of one woman's journey through the guilt and responsibility she feels for her father's death, her mother's career-altering disfiguration, and her brother's downslide into drugs and alcohol. Invincible Summers weaves a tale about grief and forgiveness and the indelible heartbreak of all the things left unsaid.

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