Title: 24
Description
In SQUIRREL PIE AND OTHER MORSELS Maggie comes of age in the Intermountain west of the United States during the middle of the 20th century after World War II and before the Vietnam War.

She explores her identity through interpersonal games while an awareness of her restless sexuality slowly emerges. "I pretended that I was somehow a reincarnated Carmen, that my urges, whims, and moods were memories of when I was Carmen, for I alone in my strange resemblance to the dead woman could get father 's attention away from the rest of the family, could kindle interest in his face. I'd even dragged Carmen 's bed all rusted and pealing with age down form the attic, sanded off the rust and paint, and refinished it gold. The only barrier was that I was his daughter, a barrier that kept it a game. " Maggie's alter ego manifests in an imaginary playmate who comes for a visit. "The slightly warped looking-glass lengthened Maggie's silhouette almost imperceptibly, making her seem a little taller, older somehow and a bit slimmer. She stretched her body higher lifting her shoulders up and pushed out her chest to see the effect. Maggie flared her nostrils haughty like a queen, pulled her hair into a swept up style, pinned it back with a tall Spanish comb and looked to the shadows for an indication of approval but none came. " Sibling rivalry is celebrated in "Sunday Comics. " The eternal power struggle between parent and child is played out in "Mush " and "Afternoon Showers. " A cigar is smoked in a coming of age ritual in the outhouse with disastrous results in "Old Stogie "

The book contains 88 pages.

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Author Dixie Thomas Reale has a masters degree in fiction writing from San Francisco State University.

Although Squirrel Pie and Other Morsels is her first published book she has published short fiction in Eclipse, Sawtooth, Slackwater Review, Red Neck Review and Nostalgia magazine. She has published non fiction in Broomstick, Idaho Magazine, Rock and Gem, Eclectic Lapidary, Meet Points, Northside News and the Times News, and poetry in Hand of Destiny.

She won an Excellence in Journalism award from the Pacific Northwest Society of Professional Journalists, an Editor's Choice award from the National Society of Poetry and the 2004 Idaho Magazine Fiction Writing Contest.

To purchase book go to showroom page or email dixie@kountinghouse.com for an invoice. You can pay on line with pay pal.

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Price: $12.00