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Wayland Author Genevieve Fosa: When Mother Calls


Wednesday, August 8, 7:30pm – Wayland Author Genevieve Fosa will discuss her new book, When Mother Calls:

Josepha Brown is tired; tired of the seemingly endless winter, tired of her job and tired of her loopy stepmother, Maggie, calling at all hours about things that probably don’t exist. Tonight, Maggie asks Josepha to please come over, because there has been an intruder in her home, and she wants to hold a seance to talk to this intruder. She is certain it is her brother Max, who died years ago. Josepha would rather curl up in bed with a good book. Instead, she goes to see what Maggie wants. As far as Maggie is concerned, the seance is an admirable success. Josepha stole the show, by falling asleep and letting her Uncle Max speak through her. The other guests are thrilled over her performance. This leads to Josepha having adventures with a nefarious agency that wants to imprison her in order to use her powers. In her effort to find a way to stop this agency, Josepha travels back in time to 1845. There she meets her sister, who wants to know why Josepha disappeared from her family when she was just a little girl.

About Genevieve Fosa: 

Genevieve grew up believing that the great novelists were at the top of the pecking order among intellectuals, as well as being much loved by the rest of humanity. She has craved that pinnacle of adoration for most of her life.

Her path towards writing was not a straight line. For a few years, she worked as an RN in various hospitals and nursing homes. However, her so-called artistic temperament was ot well suitd to the corporate milieu. She really wanted to be at home writing stories.
Genevieve spent years attempting to satisfy these yearnings, and actually earn a living. For about twenty years, she worked as a ghostwriter, writing novels and memoirs for numerous anonymous clients. Now, she is writing novels in her own name, and When Mother Calls is the first of many to come.