The
Girl from Long Guyland
by
Lara Reznik
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BLURB:
Laila
Levin enjoys a successful marriage and a thriving career as an I.T.
executive in Austin, Texas, but she can't quite shake her lifelong
sense of not truly belonging anywhere.
When
her company announces a major layoff, Laila finds herself caught
between an unscrupulous CEO and her promiscuous boss. Then news of
her college roommate's suicide stirs up a dark secret involving three
devious friends from her past. One has betrayed a vow, another wants
to rekindle their romance, and the third is out for revenge.
Suddenly
for Laila, it's 1969 again. She's only seventeen, and she's left her
sheltered home in Long Island for college in Connecticut. Amid
protests of the Vietnam War, she's tempted by the sex, drugs, and
rock 'n' roll that rule her generation. Laila gets swept up in a
deceptive love triangle with two older locals and initiated into
their unethical hippie family. Too late she realizes her search to
belong has led to tragedy.
Laila
must now juggle the demands of her perplexed husband and her baby
boomer past forcing her to make choices that endanger her survival
and challenge her conscience.
She
learns that the lines between right and wrong are often blurred, and
sometimes you have to risk everything to be true to yourself.
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Excerpt:
CHAPTER
ONE
Lost in
Texas
Austin,
Texas, 2012
A couple
dozen stars and the eye of a yellow moon pierce light through a sky
filled with smoke. I look out the broken window to the ground below.
Crumpled in the weeds is a lifeless body with red-flecked eyes, a
bushy mustache, and sweet smile.
Vapor
seeps into the room. I can barely breathe. Ben wraps his arms around
me as I weep. Denise lies in a catatonic state perched on the bed.
Why is she only wearing her bra and panties?
Chris
stumbles inside the room. His eyes glow like diamonds. He cranes his
head out the window. “We gotta do something, man.”
“I’ll
call for an ambulance,” I say.
Ben
gulps, “That’s not a good idea.”
“We
have to,” I insist. “For Godsakes.”
He’s
dead, Laila,” Chris says.
Tears
sting my eyes.
WITH A
JOLT, I awake whimpering. The nightmare has infested my dreams for
years. It may be time to see a shrink.
The
anxiety subsides when my husband Eduardo arrives with a cappuccino
and the morning paper. “Are you okay? It sounded like you were
crying.”
I clear
my throat. “No, no, I’m fine. Just a dream, I guess.” I’ve
never discussed these recurring nightmares with him. Eduardo’s got
his own problems. He was recently laid off in a corporate downsize
and refuses to talk about it. There’s lots of tension in our home
right now. Maybe we should both see a shrink.
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AUTHOR
Bio and Links:
Lara
Reznik grew up on Long Island but escaped to New Mexico in 1970 in a
Karmann Ghia that she and her boyfriend jump-started cross-country.
As an English major at the University of New Mexico, Lara studied
under esteemed authors Rudolfo Anaya and the late Tony Hillerman. She
also attended a summer program at the prestigious Iowa Writers
Workshop.
Ambidextrous
from birth, Lara preferred her right-brained creative side, but
discovered she could make a better living with her left-brain skills,
so entered the I.T. field in 1985.
Lara
published her first novel, The Girl From Long Guyland in November
2012. The novel ranked #1 during its recent Amazon Kindle promotion
and has over 115,000 Kindle downloads. In addition to her novels,
Lara has written and optioned three screenplays that have garnered
semifinalist and finalist wins in the Austin Heart of Film, Southwest
Writers, TV Writer, Chesterfield and Writer's Digest contests.
Currently, Lara is working on a new novel based on her screenplay,
The M&M Boys.
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