Book Trailer for Small, A Novel
An affair ends Hoil Mince's six-year marriage and produces a child. The resulting divorce leads Hoil to start a new, highly dysfunctional family with his mistress. The violence that defines Hoil's relationship with his second wife, Riana, stems from his family history and his obsession with his old life; it resurrects old haunts and serves as the root of his son's suffering. Ansar's response to his parents' battles becomes self-destructive and reaches a boiling point as he nears his nineteenth birthday. For some members of this volatile family, liberation from the pain of lost and unrequited love will come only in death.
When women rave about their favorite books what often emerges as the reason is one character in particular: Bridget Jones, Jane Eyre, and Scarlett O’Hara spring to mind. For me, their ranks now include a feisty contemporary African-American woman called Lana from Problems in Living because three weeks after finishing the novel I can still hear her tender, sexy, “take no prisoners” voice in my head.”
—Grace Tierney, Writer
About Melissa
Melissa Brown Levine has published novels, contributed to magazines, and reviewed books for several years. Levine's primary writing focus is women's fiction. She explores the lives of women by creating dynamic characters who are open, vulnerable...