Once the blind man sees, he cannot continue living in his imagined world. Twenty-one-year-old narcoleptic Angel Duet knows that her father, Frank, harbors secrets. But she doesn’t know that her entire life has been anchored around lies. Frank’s suspicious refusal to discuss the past and his girlfriend’s sudden removal of the series of treasured photographs that have hung in the Duet’s foyer for more than twenty years causes Angel to become obsessed with searching for mysteriously guarded answers about her mother’s death. As she struggles to learn the truth and gain control over the narcolepsy that often fogs her world, Angel is exposed to new friends, co-workers, and lovers who introduce her to a dizzying realm of adultery, drugs, and homosexuality that further obscures reality. To truly awaken, Angel must accept a truth she could never have dreamed up. Once she does, she realizes that sometimes the gifts we receive are not what we want—and only in time do we see their worth. “Ms. Przekop has not only accurately captured the hallmark symptoms of narcolepsy and their presentation, she has created a character that is both self-aware and self-accepting of her disorder and the way it has shaped her life and decisions.” —Narcolepsy Network, www.narcolepsynetwork.org

Aberrations

Literature & Fiction

Penelope Przekop

Genre Fiction

iUniverse, Inc.

Twenty-one-year-old narcoleptic Angel Duet knows her father harbors secrets. He loves and protects her, but his suspicious refusal to discuss her mother s death drives Angel to worship an image created from the little history she does have: her father's sketchy stories and her mother's treasured photography, studies of clouds that have hung in the their foyer for more than twenty years. 
When her father's girlfriend moves in, the photographs come down, and Angel's search for truth becomes an obsession. As she struggles to uncover the past and gain control over the narcolepsy that often fogs her world, Angel descends into a dizzying realm of drugs, adultery, and confused desire that further obscures reality. As Angel begins to expose a history she could never have imagined, she discovers her entire life has been anchored around lies. Accepting the truth, once found, is the key to understanding herself, her family, and her life. To truly awaken, Angel must realize that sometimes the gifts we receive are not what we want--and only in time do we see their worth. At first glance, Aberrations is the story of a young woman who learns to live with her narcolepsy, and who struggles immensely to understand how her mom died when she was born and to discover who her mother really was. But the debut novel of Penelope Przekop moves insightfully into a whole other dimension, showing the reader how each of us lives a life of aberration, that we each have some kind of stigma or conflict or handicap to overcome. We also discover that having the strength to first seek out the truth and then to live with it can be quite challenging.

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