Ellen Morris Prewitt is an award-winning author who weaves her
Southern life—and family secrets—into her fiction. Her stories have twice
been nominated for Pushcart Prize; one received a Special Mention. The
stories in her award-winning audio collection Cain’t Do Nothing with Love
have been downloaded over 50,000 times. Her stories have appeared in
Porchlight, Gulf Coast Review, Unleash Lit, Image, Arkansas Review,
Crack the Spine, Southern Women’s Review, The Pinch, Exterminating
Angel Press, and elsewhere. She's Writer-in-Residence at 100 Men Hall,
an iconic blues site on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. She’s a frequent speaker
on the transformative possibilities of writing, a former lawyer, and a current
swimmer. She loves hand-sewing, Godzilla, and cafe au lait with beignets.
She lives in New Orleans where she (and her husband and her dog and
her house) can frequently found in costume. Check out her writing journey
at EllenMorrisPrewitt.com . When We Were Murderous Time-Traveling
Women is her first traditionally published novel.
When We Were Time-Traveling Women
Story is as strong as reality.
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When Etoile moves to New Orleans, she leaves behind in Mississippi a childhood of loss, a host of conflicting memories, and a lot of dead people. Only one of whom perished under suspicious circumstances.
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But there are rules for living in a magical city such as New Orleans. Etoile realizes this the moment she accidentally conjures a castle and a prince. And a saint. And her three ancestral grannies.
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The prince is desperate to find his would-be assassin. Since murder runs in the family, Etoile and her grannies join the quest, and their often-risible, sometimes-precarious trek compels the krewe through history, family, and the inscrutable city.
As they search for the fiend, Etoile and the prince—separately and as one—regress and come of age again. Sometimes destiny arrives in a mist and lingers like the blush of good wine.
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Award winning Southern writer Ellen Morris Prewitt invokes a surrealistic dream state in When We Were Murderous Time-Traveling Women. Flawlessly set in New Orleans, this fantastic tale of self-discovery will energize the resolve and lighten the spirit.
