"Marlis Manley's heartfelt novel of the heartland goes nowhere fast in all the best of ways. It moves and moves us." -Michael Martone, author of The Complete Writing of Art Smith It's summer 1957, and when fourteen-year-old Sandy Turner goes missing-along with one of her late mother's hidden scrapbooks-Aunt Maggie can think of only one place the girl might be. Frank Haggard, the race-car driver in those yellowing news clippings, assumes the girl claiming to be his daughter is a fan acting on a dare, until Maggie tracks them down. Memories of his annulled marriage to Maggie's sister flood over…mehr
"Marlis Manley's heartfelt novel of the heartland goes nowhere fast in all the best of ways. It moves and moves us." -Michael Martone, author of The Complete Writing of Art Smith It's summer 1957, and when fourteen-year-old Sandy Turner goes missing-along with one of her late mother's hidden scrapbooks-Aunt Maggie can think of only one place the girl might be. Frank Haggard, the race-car driver in those yellowing news clippings, assumes the girl claiming to be his daughter is a fan acting on a dare, until Maggie tracks them down. Memories of his annulled marriage to Maggie's sister flood over him, and the timing couldn't be worse. With the first-ever National Championship for stock cars a week away, the last thing he needs is a child-custody battle with Maggie-as determined as she is beautiful. When the car he's planned to pilot is turned over to a younger driver, Frank and Maggie make the riskiest deal of their lives-her savings for a race car, but if Frank wins, he gives up his daughter.
A former college instructor of all forms of written communication, Marlis Manley Broadhead has award-winning short stories and poems in literary magazines-including Kansas Quarterly, Mikrokosmos, Crosscurrents, and Kansas Women Writers. Her debut novel, TROPHY GIRL, published by Black Rose Writing last year, was awarded the William Faulkner second prize in 2018. While still in Wichita, her hometown, where she earned her MFA, she started the Learning Center at the Vo-Tech School for refugees from the Viet Nam war-located on the campus of her alma mater, Wichita High School East. In 1981, she and her family moved to Iowa State University where she taught business Communications and worked part-time for Better Homes and Garden's building department. Thanks to the development of fax machines, she took that writing job to northern California. There she taught a variety of writing classes at College of the Redwoods in Fort Bragg, California, while gazing over her students' heads at the Pacific Ocean. She also founded the annual Mendocino Coast Writers Conference (still going), started a homeless shelter (a disaster eventually), formed the Mendocino Coast Children's Fund (still thriving), and steered Fort Bragg Center for the Arts-a public showcase for local artists, who outnumbered regular folks out there five to one.Back home in Kansas, she lives with her husband and a small menagerie on a modest horse ranch just south of Kansas City where she is working on her third novel and serializing stories on Amazon Kindle Vella in the brave new world of social media.Honors and Awards·Honored at 2023 Annual Kansas Author's Dinner·William Faulkner Literary Contest, 2018, 2nd Place for novel Trophy Girl·Marlis Manley Broadhead Scholarship, Mendocino Coast Writers Conference ·Finalist, Nimrod Fiction Contest (19 finalists among 714 entrants)·Second Seaton Award for Fiction, Kansas Quarterly ·M.F.A. Fellow in Fiction, Wichita State University ·Honorable Mention, Sixth Annual National Playwriting Contest, Wichita State University
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