Mairzy Doats

By Glory Fagan

"I would have turned 100 today, if I'd lived." Dazy Wakefield looks back on the the life she lived, from her childhood on the farm and her escape to Chicago to the life she forges for herself and her child, through the eyes of those who know her best. From her unorthodox perspective reminiscent of Thornton Wilder's Stage Manager in "Our Town," Dazy gains insight from her dad's journal, her mother's letters, and her daughter's prayers. Dazy assumes a front row seat to her own legacy, proclaiming her daughter Zane the real "hero" of the story, but it is a reticent soldier who saves them both. Glory Fagan's debut novel, a work of semi-biographical fiction, gives voice to Dazy, an intrepid heroine in her own right, who says, "One day I died, but for some reason I don't seem all that dead."At once heartbreaking and heartwarming, Mairzy Doats is a pastiche drawn from many strands. Photographs and memories, journals and letters, literary and Biblical allusion, pencil sketches and watercolour come together in this work of literary fiction. But the author reminds readers, "At the heart lies an intersection of true stories told by unreliable narrators."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1980790019
• ISBN13: 9781980790013
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"