Delia Rising: A Ballet in Three Acts

By Janette DeFelice

A former professional dancer, Victoria has taught her seventeen-year-old daughter, Delia, everything she knows about the magic of ballet--but nothing about how to live her own life. Even with an aching shin, Delia wins a prestigious summer scholarship and corps de ballet contract with New York Contemporary Ballet Theatre. Victoria is overprotective of Delia and plans to leave their Indiana home to join her in New York City. But after years of living Victoria's dream, Delia isn't sure if dance is what she wants, or what her mother has told her she wants. Delia chooses to go to NYC, but she goes alone. Now apart for the first time, both Delia and Victoria must discover who they are as individuals. While reflecting on her own failed dance career and romantic liaisons, Victoria deals with memories of childhood sexual abuse and begins a new, unexpected relationship. Meanwhile, Delia naively assumes the dance world will protect her as Victoria had. But New York City isn't Grey's Point, Indiana. Delia becomes pregnant during an affair with a married choreographer, Nicolas Strozzi, who is twice her age. And when a significant history between Victoria and Strozzi is revealed, Victoria must reckon with her past to reinvent her bond with Delia. But will the startling twists in Victoria's and Delia's upended lives beget a happy ending--or a Greek tragedy?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1070715085
• ISBN13: 9781070715087
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"