A Manual for Normal
"Because life is more brilliant and more brutal than any of us imagined."
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“This is a story of
innocence,
alienation,
disillusionment,
and triumph, a
private view into
the mind of a
sensitive yet
perceptive
teenager trying
to achieve the
fictional
existence of
‘normal’ while
immersed in
harsh reality.”
--
Dawn
Perlmutter,
author of
Ritual and
Occult Crime
Even before her mother's death, Lubba James was
different. Now she's worse. She drowns herself in
fairy tales. Lets her imagination run away with her.
Doesn't know how to mourn "appropriately."
Driven made or driven to escape, Lubba isn't sure.
But she knows she has to get away from her
insufferable sister and overwhelmed father. Lubba
begins her own quest to discover what "normal"
looks like. And in reality, it's not very pretty.
A burned-out copy and his hair-trigger sniffer dog.
A homicide victim trapped alive. What's left of a
woman who's lost her child. Lubba's path leads to
them all, and as she travels deeper, sees more, she
realizes that life can be more wicked than any witch,
and richer than happily-ever-after.
In the end, Lubba must decide not what's normal,
but whether or not she cares.
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“. . .utter preciseness and clarity of image. It is a
feature of fine fiction, such as Manual for Normal,
that it suddenly, subtly, can steal your breath
away. This is a work that deserves recognition;
this an author who merits the highest praise: to
have her tale recited to others, to read her words
aloud to ourselves.”
-- S. G. Chaffee,
Author of The Hooded CloakChronicles
“Lubba, a sentient oddball who is equal parts wily
and naïve, draws us into the particular magic of
her offbeat interiority. If you think you’re normal—
that is, without hope—you haven’t read the manual
yet. Here it is.”
-- Johnny Payne,
Author of Voice and Style and North of Patagonia,
and Director, Bilingual MFA in Creative Writing,
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turner of a story that
also serves as a
handbook for those of
us who are concerned
about whether we are
‘normal,’ whatever that
is. It is written with
deep compassion,
sensitivity, and insight
into the human
condition.”
Harold V. Hall, Ph.D.,
ABPP, Author of Lethal
Violence
“For South Floridians,
the great irony is that
Lubba. . .escapes to the
streets of Boca Raton to
seek ‘norma!’ Readers
will race with Lubba to
the horrifying end that
at least validates her
life.”
Pompano Weekly
