Tina Chaulk’s second novel, A Few Kinds of Wrong, just got a nice plug from Belletrista: Celebrating Women Writers from Around the World. Belletrista sift through “hundreds of pages of publisher catalogs from all over the world to bring our readers a variety of interesting international reading.” You can see the full list here, where A Few Kinds of Wrong sits in the company of Marina Endicott’s Good to a Fault, and Mavis Gallant’s The Cost of Living. This is great recognition for Tina’s brand new novel, aptly summarized by writer Michelle Butler Hallet as “gut-painful and gut-funny.”
Bernice Morgan, on A Few Kinds of Wrong, “A book that engages the reader in a subject rarely treated in modern fiction — the shattering, unreasoned grief of a daughter when her beloved father dies. Tina Chaulk has a talent for getting inside the always quirky and often perverse sensibility of her protagonist.”
Fun Contest on Tina’s Blog, ”to Celebrate Women in Non-traditional Work,” Open to Everyone!
Visit Tina’s blog to participate to win a free copy of the novel, or just to read some of the answers.
Though it wasn’t Tina’s intention, the fact that the main character is a female mechanic will stand out for many readers. In the words of the author, “In my new novel, Jennifer is a mechanic … Although the book isn’t trying to make any political statements, and Jennifer’s job is not the main focus of the novel, by making Jennifer a mechanic I’ve called some attention to how unusual it is to find women in some fields … So, I’m having a contest to celebrate women in non-traditional work and I want to hear from you!”
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