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Nancy Freund
ALLi Author Member
Location: Europe
Genres: Cookery & Diet, Writing & Publishing, General Fiction, Literary Fiction, Short/Flash Fiction Collection, Womens Fiction, Other Poetry
Skills: Press/Media Interview, Reading/Literary Event, Self-publishing Workshop/Training, Speaking Engagement/Lecture, Writing Workshop
Nancy Freund is a poet, editor, critic, and novelist. Born in New York, raised in Kansas City, and educated in Los Angeles, she was married in England, and today lives in French-speaking Switzerland. She is the author of 'Rapeseed,' published in 2013 by Gobreau Press, 'Global Home Cooking' (2014) and 'Mailbox,' (coming out on American Mother's Day, May 10, 2015). Her work has appeared in journals such as The Istanbul Review, Blood Lotus Journal, Offshoots and The Daily Mail. In September 2012, Nancy was the writer-in-residence for webjournal Necessary Fiction, where she is also a regular book critic. Her short story ‘Marcus’ won the Geneva Writers’ first fiction prize, selected by American novelist Bret Lott in June, 2013. She co-founded the Lavaux Literary Salon (serving readers, writers and artists representing 11 countries) and she is active in Community Literacy projects for teens and adults. She holds a B.A. in English/Creative Writing and an M.Ed. from UCLA.
Nancy Freund's books
Rapeseed
Named a Foreword Reviews finalist for Book of the Year in General Fiction, and a category finalist for the Eric Hoffer Prize, 'Rapeseed' is a colorful novel of a woman's self-discovery and family secrets -- about moving abroad to finally find her own heart and home. A synesthete with blended senses, Carolann Cooper sees her letters and numbers and turbulent memories in color. Her family's move from Kansas to London cracks open her complicated history and exposes secrets she's been keeping with her husband -- and from him as well -- just as her teenage son enjoys dangerous new freedoms abroad. Carolann must urgently find out who she really is, to reconcile her past with her family's future.
Global Home Cooking: International Families' Favorite Recipes
GLOBAL HOME COOKING: International Families' Favorite Recipes features 41 countries, 140 recipes, from 102 international families - in a gorgeous full color hardback cookbook. It has won the Eric Hoffer Prize, Honorable Mention. Founded in 1962, the International School of Lausanne, Switzerland celebrates an annual tradition of cultural exchange and good eating. This "International Day" compilation of wonderful family recipes from all over the world is a loving tribute to this spirit of sharing and global home cooking. Every recipe is authentic, every recipe is delicious, and many recipes are easy! "What is patriotism but the love of the good things we ate in our childhood." - Lin Yutang. "Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody." - Samuel Pepys
Mailbox: A Scattershot Novel of Racing, Dares and Danger, Occasional Nakedness, and Faith
Deep, delightful, and compulsively readable...
In the aftermath of Nixon's controversial presidency, America turns 200 while scrappy agnostic protagonist Sandy Drue turns 10, finds an electric typewriter in her father's office and begins producing pages on the conflicting demands of burgeoning adolescence and her own search for the Meaning of Life. Sandy's family has moved to Small Town, USA from New York, and Sandy's quest is complicated by cross-cultural questions no one expected to encounter -- least of all her intellectual, artist mother or entrepreneurial father. Like a blog long before blogging, Sandy creates a sort of mother-daughter love story as she both embraces and rejects her mother's complicated example to find her own way into adulthood and the world.
A delightful novel that is hopeful, heartbreaking, and profound in its treatment of life's larger questions -- revealing our shared need for solace, nostalgia, and good old-fashioned fun.
Date of publication, American Mother's Day, May 10th, 2015