Synopses & Reviews
Deborah Clearman was born in North Carolina and grew up on a tobacco farm in Southern Maryland. She studied art history and fine arts at Bryn Mawr College and pursued a career in painting. Represented by First Street Gallery in New York City, her paintings and prints have been widely exhibited in galleries and museums. She wrote and illustrated THE GOOSE'S TALE (Whispering Coyote Press) for children. Rediscovering an early passion--her first (unpublished) novel written at age ten was forty pages, handwritten--she changed focus from painting to writing fiction. Her short stories have appeared in a number of literary journals. TODOS SANTOS is her first novel.
Clearman is Program Director for NY Writers Coalition, a nonprofit organization that gives voice to formerly unheard members of society through the art of writing. A mother of two grown children, she lives in New York City and Guatemala.
Synopsis
One winter in a marsh near their home close to the Chesapeake Bay, a brother and sister find a Canada goose decoy that comes to life and shares her sad story with them.