Elizabeth Flock

In many ways, Carrie Parker is like any other eight-year-old - playing make-believe, dreading school, dreaming of faraway places. But even her imagination can't shut out the realities of her impoverished North Carolina home or help her protect her younger sister, Emma. As the big sister, Carrie is determined to do anything to keep Emma safe from a life of neglect and abuse at the hands of their drunken stepfather, Richard - abuse their momma can't seem to see, let alone stop. But after the sisters' plan to run away from home unravels, their world takes a shocking turn - and one shattering moment ultimately reveals a truth that leaves everyone reeling.

Me & Emma

Renowned journalist and author of The Heart is a Shifting Sea Elizabeth Flock investigates what few dare to confront, or even imagine: the role and necessity of female-led violence in response to systems built against women. In The Furies, Elizabeth Flock examines how three real-life women have used violence to fight back, and how views of women who defend their lives are often distorted by their depictions in media and pop culture. These three immersive narratives follow Brittany Smith, a young woman from Stevenson, Alabama, who killed a man she said raped her but was denied the protection of the Stand-Your-Ground law; Angoori Dahariya, leader of a gang in Uttar Pradesh, India, dedicated to avenging victims of domestic abuse; and Cicek Mustafa Zibo, a fighter in a thousands-strong all-female militia that battled ISIS in Syria. Each woman chose to use lethal force to gain power, safety, and freedom when the institutions meant to protect them--government, police, courts--utterly failed to do so. Each woman has been criticized for their actions by those who believe that violence is never the answer. Through Flock's propulsive prose and remarkable research on the ground--embedded with families, communities, and organizations in America, India, and Syria--The Furies examines, with exquisite nuance, whether the fight for women's safety is fully possible without force. Do these women's acts of vengeance help or hurt them, and ultimately, all women? Did they create lasting change in entrenched misogynistic and paternalistic systems? And ultimately, what would societies in which women have real power look like? Across mythologies and throughout history, the stories of women's lives frequently end with their bodies as sites of violence. But there are also celebrated tales of women, real and fictional, who have fought back. The novelistic accounts of these three women provoke questions about how to achieve true gender equality, and offer profound insights in the quest for answers.

Women, Vengeance, and Justice

The Furies

But Inside I'm Screaming

Love and Marriage in Mumbai

Heart Is a Shifting Sea

Struggling to start over after a violent event involving her sister, nine-year-old Carrie takes comfort in new friendships with Cricket and Cricket's mother and grandmother before secrets threaten to destroy both families.

A Novel

What Happened to My Sister

Henry Powell, a thirty-one-year-old salesman at a men's clothing store, spends his days fantasizing about an exciting life away from his small New England town, but when the store goes out of business on September 10, 2001, Henry experiences drastic changes.

Everything Must Go

But Inside I'm Screaming (MIRA)

But Inside I'm Screaming by Elizabeth Flock released on Aug 25, 2003 is available now for purchase.

Narrated with simplicity and unabashed honesty, Elizabeth Flock's critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling novel Me & Emma is a vivid portrayal of a child's indomitable spirit, her incredible courage and the heartbreaking loss of innocence In many ways, Carrie Parker is like any other eight-year-old--playing make-believe, going to school, dreaming of faraway places. But even in her imagination, she can't pretend away the hardships of her impoverished North Carolina home or protect her younger sister, Emma. As the big sister, Carrie is determined to do anything to keep Emma safe from a life of neglect and abuse at the hands of their drunken stepfather, Richard--abuse their momma can't seem to see, let alone stop. But after the sisters' plan to run away from home unravels, Carrie's world takes a shocking turn--and one shattering moment ultimately reveals a truth that leaves everyone reeling.

Eight-year-old Carrie Parker and her little sister, tired of living in an abusive environment, concoct a plan to run away, but their escape is thwarted by shocking revelations that will change their lives forever. 200,000 first printing.

'Me and Emma' is a bittersweet and poignant tale about two little girls trapped by the limitations of a less than perfect childhood. It is sometimes sad, sometimes funny but more often an engrossing tale about the power of the imagination and the hope it brings to our lives. An unforgettable story that will appeal to fans of Alice Sebold's 'The Lovely Bones' and Catherine Ryan Hyde's 'Pay It Forward'.

In many ways, Carrie Parker is like any other eight-year-old—playing make-believe, going to school, dreaming of faraway places. But even in her imagination, she can't pretend away the hardships of her impoverished North Carolina home or protect her younger sister, Emma. As the big sister, Carrie is determined to do anything to keep Emma safe from a life of neglect and abuse at the hands of their drunken stepfather, Richard—abuse their momma can't seem to see, let alone stop. But after the sisters' plan to run away from home unravels, Carrie's world takes a shocking turn—and one shattering moment ultimately reveals a truth that leaves everyone reeling.

When she has a nervous breakdown in front of an audience of millions, broadcast journalist Isabel Murphy is sent to recover at Three Breezes, a renowned psychiatric hospital, where, by facing the reality of her situation, she must pick up the pieces of her shattered life.

Emma i ja

Once defined by her career and independence, stay-at-home mom Samantha Friedman realizes her life has become a routine of errands, car pools and suburban gossip. She deals with a husband who shows up for dinner but is too preoccupied for conversation, an increasingly moody daughter who won't talk at all, and wonders, Is this it? Since finding out she was adopted, seventeen-year-old Cammy Friedman has felt like an outsider. Unwilling to reach out to the parents she once adored, she shields herself behind black clothing and begins to drift into dangerous territory with questionable friends and risky behavior. Mother and daughter indulge in their own respective escapism— for Sam, clandestine coffee dates with a handsome stranger, fueled by the desire to feel something; for Cammy, a furtive search for her birth mother punctuated by sex, pills and the need to feel absolutely nothing—until a pivotal moment in an otherwise average day alters their relationships forever.

Sleepwalking in Daylight

SLEEPWALKING IN DAYLIGHT By Elizabeth Flock Once defined by her career and independence, stay–at–home mum Samantha Friedman finds that her days have been reduced to errands, car pools and suburban gossip. What was an easy decision for Sam years ago has become a nagging awareness that this life was her choice. Now she deals with a husband who shows up for dinner but is too preoccupied for conversation, and a daughter swathed in black clothing and Goth makeup who won't talk at all. Believing she's an adopted mistake, seventeen–year–old Cammy has fallen into sex and drugs and pours herself into a journal filled with poetry and pain. On parallel paths, mother and daughter indulge in desperate, furtive escapism – for Sam, a heady affair with her supposed soul mate, fuelled by clandestine coffee dates and the desire to feel something; for Cammy, a secretive search for her birth mother punctuated by pills, pot and the need to feel absolutely nothing.

Sleepwalking In Daylight

Carrie Parker, uma menina de nove anos, e sua mãe acabam de se mudar para uma cidadezinha na Carolina do Norte, prontas para deixar para trás seu passado turbulento e recomeçar do zero. A violência estilhaçou essa pequena família e deixou a mãe da garota quase incapaz de continuar. E Carrie, que antigamente encontrava consolo em sua adorada irmã, Emma, agora está proibida de sequer mencionar o nome dela. Nessa nova cidade, Carrie vai conhecer três gerações de mulheres da mesma família — incluindo a adolescente Cricket — que parecem ter o lar acolhedor com que ela sempre sonhou. Mas, conforme Carrie e Cricket se tornam amigas, nenhuma delas consegue escapar dos segredos que suas famílias escondem — e, no momento em que for finalmente revelada, a verdade vai transformar para sempre a vida delas.

O que aconteceu com Emma

In twenty-first-century India, tradition is colliding with Western culture, a clash that touches the lives of everyday Indians from the wealthiest to the poorest. While ethnicity, class, and religion are influencing the nation's development, so too are pop culture and technology-an uneasy fusion whose impact is most evident in the institution of marriage. Love and Marriage in Mumbai introduces three couples whose relationships illuminate these sweeping cultural shifts in dramatic ways: Veer and Maya, a forward-thinking professional couple whose union is tested by Maya's desire for independence; Shahzad and Sabeena, whose desperation for a child becomes entwined with the changing face of Islam; and Ashok and Parvati, whose arranged marriage, made possible by an online matchmaker, blossoms into true love. Elizabeth Flock spent close to a decade getting to know these couples-listening to their stories and living in their homes, where she was privy to marital joy, inevitable frustration, dramatic upheaval, and whispered confessions and secrets. The result is a phenomenal feat of reportage that is both an enthralling portrait of a nation in the midst of transition and an unforgettable look at the universal mysteries of love and marriage that connect us all.

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