Finalist, 2016 Sarton Women's Book Award
Finalist, 2016 Eric Hoffer Award for Fiction
Finalist, 2016 Reader's Choice Award,Women's Fiction
Finalist, 2016 Best Book Awards, Women's Fiction
New Apple Official Selection Award for Excellence
Honorable Mention: Great Midwest Book Festival
When the past casts a long shadow, the search for truth becomes a journey of the heart.
Angelica, protected by her mother from the perils that may befall young girls, is desperate for passion and excitement. But when a devastating family secret shatters her world, she flees home and tumbles into a series of reckless choices that take her far from the girl she once was.
Years later, with two children and a husband behind bars, Angelica must confront the ghosts of her past. Determined to reclaim her story, she sets out on a painful but empowering path toward self-discovery and for her first love, the so-called bad boy who was so very right. What will it take for her to embrace life again and find a second chance at love?
“Sienkiewicz’s powerful and richly detailed novel is at once a love story, a cautionary tale and an inspirational journey.
In the Context of Love should be required reading for all wayward teenage girls—and their mothers too.” ~
Bonnie Joe Campbell, author of National Book Award Finalist
American Salvage, and National Bestseller,
Once Upon a River, and Michigan Notable Book,
The Waters“Absorbing, heartbreaking, compulsively-readable and insightful,
In the Context of Love casts a hypnotic spell. This is story-telling at its best.” ~
Lewis Robinson, author of Officer Friendly and Other Stories, Water Dogs, and
The Islanders.
“A wild roller coaster ride through love’s lowest lows and highest highs, from dark acts of sexual violence to kisses that taste like freedom. In her boldly compelling narrative, Sienkiewicz captures her heroine’s harrowing journey with both compassion and passion… a wise and vital new voice in fiction.” ~
Elizabeth Searle, author of the
Boston Globe bestseller
A Four-Sided Bed“Sienkiewicz has written a love letter to the wonder and imperfection of everyday life.”
Marcy Dermansky, author of the critically acclaimed novels
Very Nice and
Hurricane Girl.Linda K. Sienkiewicz is a published poet and fiction writer, cynical optimist, fan of corgis, tea drinker, and wine lover from Michigan. Her poetry, short stories, and art have been published in more than fifty literary journals, including Prairie Schooner, Clackamas Literary Review, Spoon River, and Permafrost. She received a poetry chapbook award from Bottom Dog Press, and an MFA from the University of Southern Maine. Linda lives with her husband in southeast Michigan, where they spoil their grandchildren and then send them back home.
