Flood: A Memoir - Paperback

by Christine Kalafus (Author)

Christine is pregnant with twins and recovering from the betrayal of her husband's affair when her right breast engages in a mutiny. After delivering identical boys and a tumor on the same day, she believes the worst is over. Until the natural spring under her house-- what the neighborhood kids call The Witch House-- begins to rise. Intimate, heartbreaking, and hilarious, Flood is one woman's liquid desire to protect her home, her family, and herself.

Author Biography

Lauded by Publisher's Weekly as "reassuringly honest and entertaining," Christine's award-winning writing has appeared in The Culture We Deserve, Longreads, The New Guard, and The Connecticut Literary Anthology, among many other places. "I've Heard You Make Cakes," recorded before a live audience at Laugh Boston, was broadcast by The Moth Radio Hour on New York's WNYC. Christine lives in Pomfret, Connecticut with her husband and Virginia Woof-- their Springer spaniel-- in an old farmhouse that needs her.