Susan
Myhre Hayes
New Release
Making Up Stories: A Novel
What would you tell your daughter if you had one week left her? Would you reveal the family secrets you’ve kept? What would you want to know from your mom if you only had a week left to ask? Certainly, you’d ask why she encouraged you to break your engagement and never spoke of her past.
Told from multiple perspectives, Making Up Stories: A Novel is a story of the love between a mother and daughter and the sacrifices they are willing to make for each other.
Making Up Stories is the story of family secrets and a mother’s and daughter’s desire not to be defined by intergenerational trauma. It is a story of the love between a mother and daughter and the sacrifices they are willing to make for each other.
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Praise & Reviews
In her thought-provoking, poignant debut work of fiction, Making Up Stories: A Novel, Susan Myhre Hayes tackles complex and painful issues around family secrets and how such deception, while wanting to protect family members from uncomfortable truths, erodes the psychological foundation of subsequent generations. If you are interested in the topics of generational trauma, parent-child relationships, and death with dignity—this one is a must-read.
Sue Hinkin is an award-winning author of the Bea Middleton and Lucy Vega thriller series. Hinkin was recently voted Rocky Mountain Writer of the Year.
This engaging novel finds a mother painstakingly revealing family secrets to her loving daughter. As the stories unfold, readers will be astounded at the complexities of the family’s past.
Jean Teigland