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Hope Always Rises

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Pub Date Feb 28 2023 | Archive Date May 30 2023


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"Rich with empathy, humor, and imagination, Giorgio paints a beautiful picture of the afterlife that is a balm for anyone who has ever lost someone." –Marisa Dondlinger, author of Open and Gray Lines

In Heaven, there is a gated community for those who end their lives by choice. This is a complete surprise to 43-year old Hope, who ends her life one morning on the banks of the Fox River in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

Hope has always dealt with deep sadness. From childhood on, she visited therapists, doctors, alternative medicine practitioners, Reiki artists, etc., to no avail. In Heaven, God reassures her that he knows what caused the sadness, but he won't reveal it yet.

All community residents are required to attend weekly group therapy. Hope's first group is led by Virginia Woolf.

Several of the book's chapters tell the stories of other members of this group. Filled with many moments of striking humor, uplifting realizations, and difficult challenges, Hope finds her way in Heaven. She meets many people like herself, who help her restore her forgotten artistic talent and passion, and God himself, who is amazingly human in the most inhuman of ways. Hope finds understanding and forgiveness, and most importantly, friends.

"Rich with empathy, humor, and imagination, Giorgio paints a beautiful picture of the afterlife that is a balm for anyone who has ever lost someone." –Marisa Dondlinger, author of Open and Gray Lines...


A Note From the Publisher
Kathie Giorgio is the author of seven novels, two story collections, an essay collection, and four poetry collections. She's been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in fiction and poetry and awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Wisconsin Library Association, the Silver Pen Award for Literary Excellence, the Pencraft Award for Literary Excellence, and the Eric Hoffer Award In Fiction. Giorgio is also the director and founder of All Writers' Workplace & Workshop LLC, an international creative writing studio. She lives in Waukesha, Wisconsin, with her husband, mystery writer Michael Giorgio, her daughter Olivia, who just finished writing her first novel, an eccentric dog named after Ursula Le Guin, a fat cat named Edgar Allen Paw, and a tiny gray cat named Muse.

Kathie Giorgio is the author of seven novels, two story collections, an essay collection, and four poetry collections. She's been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in fiction and poetry and...


Advance Praise

"...a beautiful, heartfelt, and surprisingly funny take on the normally uncomfortable topic of suicide." -Nora Murray, author of Kingdom Come

"...offers an intriguing variation on the theme of salvation, this one with a fallible God who enjoys a sangria." -Angela Bier, author of The Accidental Archivist

"...a beautiful, heartfelt, and surprisingly funny take on the normally uncomfortable topic of suicide." -Nora Murray, author of Kingdom Come

"...offers an intriguing variation on the theme of...


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ISBN 9781685132422
PRICE $5.99 (USD)
PAGES 342

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