From the USA Today bestselling author of the international sensation Baby Teeth comes a claustrophobic psychological thriller about one woman’s nightmarish spiral while quarantined with her mother. Grace isn’t exactly thrilled when her newly widowed mother, Jackie, asks to move in with her. They’ve never had a great relationship, and Grace likes her space—especially now that she’s stuck at home during a pandemic. Then again, she needs help with the mortgage after losing her job. And maybe it’ll be a chance for them to bond—or at least give each other a hand. But living with Mother isn’t for everyone. Good intentions turn bad soon after Jackie moves in. Old wounds fester; new ones open. Grace starts having nightmares about her disabled twin sister, who died when they were kids. And Jackie discovers that Grace secretly catfishes people online—a hobby Jackie thinks is unforgivable. When Jackie makes an earth-shattering accusation against her, Grace sees it as an act of revenge, and it sends her spiraling into a sleep-deprived madness. As the walls close in, the ghosts of Grace’s past collide with a new but familiar threat: Mom.
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Zoje Stage
Before turning to novels, Zoje Stage had a deep and eclectic background in film and theatre. Highlights include being a 2012 Emerging Storytellers Fellow from the Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP.org), and a 2008 Fellow in Screenwriting from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA.org). In 2009 she won the Screenplay Live! Screenwriting Competition, which afforded her the opportunity to direct a staged reading of her winning script, THE MACHINE WHO LOVED, for the High Falls Film Festival (Rochester, NY). Zoje has written-directed-produced numerous zero-budget films, including the documentary short BEST OF LUCK ("an amusing take on the travails of aspiring writers" - The New York Times). Her films have screened at venues such as Anthology Film Archives and Two Boots Pioneer Theater (both in NYC), Film Kitchen (Pittsburgh, PA), and Emerging Filmmakers (Rochester, NY). As a playwright, Zoje is most proud of her play MONSTER, which was produced in Pittsburgh by the Upstairs Theatre ("Ms. Stage now makes her own contribution to holocaust literature with a demanding and intensely felt play... a must-see for those wanting another view of why and how the holocaust happened." - The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). After living in Rochester, NY for many years, she is back in her hometown of Pittsburgh, PA. More of the story: Zoje Stage was born in Pittsburgh, PA and has had a lifelong investment in the arts - with deep experience in theatre, film and writing. As director of her middle school drama club, she directed her first play at thirteen, overseeing a group of thirty-three kids. At fourteen she wrote the book & lyrics for a musical which was performed by her high school theatre club. At fifteen she was deeply impacted by her exposure to the American Ibsen Theatre, where she worked as a volunteer. She also spent her teenage years exploring photography, poetry, ballet, guitar and songwriting. By her late teens, Zoje was certain that filmmaking was her calling - an art form that encompassed all of the other arts. She took classes at Pittsburgh Filmmakers where she made several short, Super-8 films. She soon began writing screenplays in earnest, and signed with her first agent in 1990, at age twenty-one. In 1995 she came this close to selling a screenplay to Norman Jewison - a bittersweet piece of trivia that still makes her wonder "what if...?" Her scripts placed well in a number of screenwriting contests - most notably, she is a two-time semifinalist in the Nicholl Fellowships (2001, 1997), the industry's most prestigious competition, sponsored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. Best Supporting Actress (Zoje) and Best Director (Paula) at the 1996 Pittsburgh New Works Festival After studying acting at Point Park Community Conservatory, she gained valuable experience as an actor that later influenced her writing and filmmaking. Some of her favorite roles include: Iris in "Killer Month" (written by F.j. Hartland/directed by Paula D'Alessandris for the Upstairs Theatre); Celia in "As You Like It" (Carlow College Theatre Co.); Annie in "Pillar of Salt" (directed by Scott Sickles for Pittsburgh New Voices); and Grace Youngblood in "Stampede!" (written by F.j. Hartland/directed by Paula D'Alessandris for the Pittsburgh New Works Festival). Her professional experience includes two seasons of voice-over work for the FOX-TV children's show "Johnson & Friends." As a playwright, Zoje is most proud of her play "Monster" (directed by Paula D'Alessandris for the Upstairs Theatre). From The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: "Ms. Stage now makes her own contribution to holocaust literature with a demanding and intensely felt play... a must-see for those wanting another view of why and how the holocaust happened." Her short play "Red Squat" was produced by The Looking Glass Theatre (New York City), and several of her plays received staged readings at various venues including the Pittsburgh New Works Festival, First Stage (Los Angeles), and Mutiny Productions (New York City). Zoje on set of her film "Bewilderness" (2002) In 2002, with the new affordability of digital technology, Zoje decided to resume her filmmaking education. She acquired a miniDV camera and an iMac and proceeded over the next six years to make more than a dozen zero-budget films, which she wrote, produced, directed, photographed and edited. Highlights of her filmography include the $5 documentary short, "Best of Luck" ("an amusing take on the travails of aspiring writers" - The New York Times) and the mockumentary feature, "Happy Walter" ("witty" - Pittsburgh City Paper). Favorite projects include "Mt. Hope" (14 min.), "Against Her Skin" (22 min.) and "Tea Ceremony at the End of the World" (6 min.). She screened her films at such venues as Anthology Film Archives and Two Boots Pioneer Theater (both in New York City), Film Kitchen (Pittsburgh, PA), and Emerging Filmmakers (Rochester, NY). Zoje remained active in other artistic disciplines - learning to create jewelry while working at a family-run jewelry store, collaborating with a visual artist based in Germany on pieces that were exhibited in Novosibirsk, and embarking on a unique poetry project for which she wrote 300 pages of poetry in three months. Other poetry accolades include: being published in the HazMat Review and the Arizona Daily Sun; being the featured poet at readings at Pure Kona and Norm Davis' Wide Open Mic @ Writers & Books; having several poems highlighted on the Poets Against War website. During the Q&A following the High Falls Film Festival staging of "The Machine Who Loved" (With Eric Cubitt and Marilyn O'Connor) In 2008, after winning a Fellowship in Screenwriting from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Zoje endeavored to launch her first professional feature film with her script, "The Machine Who Loved." In 2009 "The Machine Who Loved" won the Screenplay Live! screenwriting competition, which afforded her the opportunity to direct a successful staged reading of the project for the High Falls Film Festival (Rochester, NY). Over the next few years, several producers expressed interest in the project, but the right combination of personalities and financing never quite materialized. In 2012 Zoje was accepted into Independent Film Week (New York City) in IFP's Emerging Narrative category with her script "Hands and Knees." It was a wonderful experience, and several of the posts were picked up by Filmmaker Magazine. But as 2012 came to a close, Zoje faced a fork in the road. She'd been writing screenplays and pursing her film dreams for 25 years, and things hadn't moved forward as she had hoped. Increasingly frustrated at feeling like she had little to show for her quarter-century of effort, she desired to complete a project that truly reflected her abilities. She once heard someone compare writing a novel to directing a film, in that the writer chooses everything that the audience sees. With that in mind, she swallowed her fear of writing long fiction and embarked on her first novel. In 2017, shortly after completing her sixth novel, Zoje signed with a literary agent and embarked on a professional career as a novelist.
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