An Artist's Book and Metafiction - Set in the fictional town of Allegheny in the New York Empire State, Connie Munda (a single mother and veteran military intelligence officer turned Child Protection Services officer) investigates two mothers accused of child abuse. The novel provides a raw unflinching look at the challenges faced by mothers in both poverty and luxury highlighting the grim state of American children today.Set as a deposition novel discovered in the Public Records of the Allegheny Family Court, Mother’s Day in the Empire State delves into three distinct stories of motherhood in America. Munda critically examines the concept of motherhood. Drawing inspiration ...

Superstition, mysticism, and religion weave like tangled vines through the tales of Amelia’s newly discovered ancestry. As a widow struggling to sustain herself and her ten-year-old son, Amy’s modest life is tragically disrupted when a dubious lawyer determines her late mother, adopted at birth, was the estranged daughter of the recently deceased Lexington McClary. Although the net worth of the once enormous estate is petty, Amy decides to travel several hundred miles to attend the funeral, in the hope of at least learning a semblance of her newfound ancestry. After the interment, alone in the secluded rural cemetery, Amy trips and bashes her head against a tombstone, suffering a co...