Amanda McTigue

Actor Monica McKey reads the prologue of

GOING TO SOLACE

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Amanda

McTigue

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Amanda McTigue is the author of Going to Solace, a debut novel published by HD Media Press in 2012 that follows the stories of multiple characters who wind up going to Solace, a hospice in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.

GOING TO SOLACE

Debut Novel by Amanda McTigue

We're in Big Piney and Little Piney, two hollows just outside the town of Garnet in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. It's 1989. Thanksgiving is just around the corner. A handful of mismatched folks--some country people, some far-flung, fancy people--discover they have one thing in common: someone they know is sick, real sick, dying sick. Their paths cross as they go to Solace, a local hospice.

August Early has never set foot in a hospital before. Maggie Dulé packs a bag despite her vow never to return to the Pineys again. Burnice Kling, R.N., is fixing to "fire" her patient, a "cantankerous old cauliflower of a woman" and mother to an estranged daughter named Maggie. Meanwhile Cadence Greevey passes among them unnoticed. She's a "big-little girl" whose thinking hasn't kept up with her growing. Her mama's ailing and there's no one home to help.

Suddenly they find themselves functioning as caregivers, bedside improvisers, doing all they can to beat back death or "hurry him on about his business."

Through chapters that interweave points of view--funny-sad and sad-funny--multiple stories become one. Steeped in the rich flavor of the Appalachians, this debut novel offers comfort in comfortless times, illuminating the altered states of shock and clarity that visit us as our loved (and hated) ones pass from this world to the next.

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Amanda McTigue hails from a long line of talkers. Her daddy’s people were immigrant Irish Catholics who wound up stateside in the Appalachian coal-mining country of West Virginia. Her mother’s people were Presbyterian preachers from the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina. An author, teacher, and stage director, Amanda's children’s books and companion CDs are on bookstore shelves. Her written works for the theater have been seen on stages ranging from community playhouses to the likes of Juilliard, Carnegie Hall and the Minnesota Opera. Going to Solace is her first novel. You can keep up with her doings at www.amandamctigue.com.

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On Sep 13, 2012, Amanda spoke with Gil Mansergh, host of KRCB public radio’s Word by Word in an extended interview. Gil named GOING TO SOLACE as one of the top 4 best reads of 2012 along with Adam Johnson’s Pulitzer Prize winner “The Orphan Master’s Son.”

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