The Vietnam War is on the nightly news and women are burning bras in the fast-changing world of the 1960s, but thirty-year old Laura wonders why her choice as a feminist couldn’t be to have a baby without marriage. Laura not only has to justify her desire to her forward-thinking friends, but to her fundamentally religious siblings, as well. Yet, her most important mission is to find a man who will agree to impregnate her and then get out of the picture once the act is accomplished. Four narrators push along this charming tale set in 1960s Seabrook, Long Island, as three adult siblings converge in their recently deceased father’s home. Laura is a 30-year-old newspaper columnist from New York. Her brother, Eric, is a compassionate minister trying to find his faith, and sister Beth is an angry and disapproving fundamentalist who is determined to hinder her siblings’ desires in the name of her religion. They share the narration with Eric’s wife, Jenny. Tragic secrets are revealed without resorting to high drama in this portrayal of two separate halves of counterculture and suburban banality. Readers will find Of Little Faith to be uplifting and heartfelt in the most surprising of ways.
Awarded 2nd place as Best of Long Island Author 2012 by the Long Island Press, Carol Hoenig is the multi-award winning author of Without Grace and The Author’s Guide to Planning Book Events. Carol Hoenig is a fulltime freelance writer and publishing consultant. Her essays, articles, book reviews and short stories appear in a wide number of publications, including The Huffington Post. Carol also contributed to Putting Your Passion into Print, written by Arielle Eckstudt & David Henry Sterry. Arianna Huffington invited Carol to contribute to On Becoming Fearless and Tory Johnson, ABC’s Good Morning America’s workplace contributor, also invited Carol to submit an essay for her New York Times Bestseller, Will Work from Home. Stephanie Gunning invited Carol to submit an essay on creativity for her anthology Audacious Creativity. Carol’s short story, Snow Angels and Somersaults, was a finalist for the 2007 Spring/Summer Glass Woman Prize, a bi-annual prize for women prose writers. Her essay, “Wild Horses and Young Stallions” was selected for the just released anthology Lost Lessons from Life on the Farm. Carol is on the advisory council for Author Solutions and was on The New York Center for Independent Publishing advisory council and writer’s conference committee for five years before it disbanded. She was the Director and Writer-in-Residence for Old Forge Library Adirondack Summer Writing Workshop for 2008. She is a member of the Women’s Media Group and teaches continuing education courses at Hofstra University. You may find out more about the author at www.carolhoenig.com.