WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE:
A SORT-OF LOVE STORY
by Jennifer A. Payne
Memoir / Creative Non-Fiction
5 x 7, Paperback, 130 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9905651-5-4
$16.00 (plus tax + shipping)
Connecticut writer Jen Payne has long been inspired by those life moments that move us most — love and loss, joy and disappointment, milestones and turning points, and WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE: A SORT-OF LOVE STORY tells of such a moment. It’s a conversation, a memoir, a love story.
“She thought about him often over the years. Looked him up online occasionally to see where he was and if he was all right. It wasn’t until last fall that she found his email address, and several months more before she got up the courage to write.”
So begins this epistolary novel, told through a series of emails, about two people who reconnect after 15 years apart and work to reconcile their pasts…and futures. Influenced by the work of Brené Brown and a proponent of the bravery of storytelling, Payne says WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE is “about having the courage to speak our truths; it’s about trust and vulnerability, and about the true blessings found when we open our hearts — come what may.”
Featured by the Independent Book Review as part of “45 Books We’re Excited About from Indie Presses & Indie Authors, 2022.”
WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE: A SORT-OF LOVE STORY ($16) is available at the Shop at Guilford Art Center (411 Church Street, Guilford, CT 06437) from the Three Chairs Publishing Etsy shop, or through PayPal below.
You can pay through PayPal using a PayPal account or any standard credit card. If you prefer the old school approach, please send your check, made payable to Jen Payne, P.O. Box 453, Branford, CT 06405.
REVIEWS + PRESS
• Branford author reaches out to old love online, writes about it in new novel, Sue Braden, Shoreline Times/CT Insider
ABOUT THE ARTIST
The stunning cover art is by Sarah Zar, a book-obsessed, multi-disciplinary artist who has exhibited in the U.S. and abroad. Whether drawing, painting, collaging, or sculpting, Zar uses images in a literary, psychological and symbolic way. While finishing her Master’s degree, she played the saw in a gypsy chamber ensemble, taught contemporary art & aesthetics, quantum theory, literary theory, NLP, nonsense cryptology, psychology, and the art of microexpressions. Zar is currently working on community-based artwork in which anyone in the world can be painted into an epic narrative scene about the War on Imagination. For more information, you can visit SarahZar.com.
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