Necessary Or Not
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Necessary or Not A four-generation family saga Daughter and mother pregnant at the same time? Do they even know? Is this one of the many secrets members of the Turret/Rawls family are keeping from each other? Grandparents, parents, children, siblings, cousins, aunts. Who is keeping what from whom and why? The young ones grow up dealing with death in the family, pregnancy and consequences, relocation, intergenerational relations. Secrets…secrets…secrets. As the adult world becomes wider these have their influence on choices. Mort and Sarah Turrett are "from the '60s" and "seem more like parents than our own parents" to Ronnie, Rosie and Bucky Rawls. Circumstances take them separately and together between suburban southwest Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Seattle and Portland, Oregon as they test the bonds of family and explore family alternatives, and what friends can and cannot do for each other. You are immediately drawn into this saga of a 21st century extended family moving beyond conventional boundaries to separate and sort themselves out, finally realizing relationships that bind them as family and community in new ways. Choices…choices…choices.
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Daughter and mother pregnant at the same time? Do they even know? Is this one of the many secrets members of the Turret/Rawls family are keeping from each other? Grandparents, parents, children, siblings, cousins, aunts. Who is keeping what from whom and why? The young ones grow up dealing with death in the family, pregnancy and consequences, relocation, intergenerational relations. Secrets…secrets…secrets. As the adult world becomes wider these have their influence on choices. Mort and Sarah Turrett are "from the '60s" and "seem more like parents than our own parents" to Ronnie, Rosie and Bucky Rawls. Circumstances take them separately and together between suburban southwest Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Seattle and Portland, Oregon as they test the bonds of family and explore family alternatives, and what friends can and cannot do for each other. You are immediately drawn into this saga of a 21st century extended family moving beyond conventional boundaries to separate and sort themselves out, finally realizing relationships that bind them as family and community in new ways. Choices…choices…choices.
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Nora Chalfont's writing life has ranged from editorial and feature writing for Family Handyman magazine and international trade journals in New York to civil rights and disability advocacy for the State of Ohio. She has published poetry in Pinehurst Journal. Necessary or Not is her second novel, after St. Elmo's Fire, An Adventure Story & Allegory. Nora attended Swarthmore College and holds degrees from The New School in New York, Antioch College, and The Ohio State University in Ohio. She currently resides in Yellow Springs, Ohio and spends time in Portland, Oregon, home of Powell's Books, where her daughter Corinne Devine is a documentary videographer.