American Suite Humorously Challenges Our Notions

Online, April 19, 2011 (Newswire.com) - At the mercy of her romantic passions, she falls in love with the first male Flatlander she meets just days after arriving in the Midwest, only to find he has a wife and two children. Following a brief but disastrous visit from Ben, Arisa seeks therapy. Life gets worse when she visits New York over Christmas; family problems, finding that Ben has a new love, and an anxiety attack after visiting Ground Zero all force Arisa back to the Flatlands before fleeing to Schlectenberg where she falls in love with a screenwriter and Hollywood director.

Rosalyn and Sophie's stories are interwoven all the while with Arisa's, and the reader catches up with Sophie's life as her husband loses his job and Sophie lusts after her son's tutor. When Sophie's sons embrace conflicting religions, sailing becomes the family hobby as a means of creating some kind of unity until the boat gets damaged during a race. The sisters decide to celebrate a multicultural December holiday in New York along with Arisa's ex-con lover, Roy. It turns out to be a huge disaster, but one that glitters nevertheless. Sophie's diary ends as she embarks on her own 'memoir,' Sophie's Seven Simple Steps to the Perfect Life.

Last, but definitely not least, is Rosalyn's story. From her diary, readers learn she is a Jewish mother whom God has challenged by making her Christian. We share in her pain as she loses her husband of forty-four years and her joy when she finds Saul, her new partner and love of her life; her anger when she is discarded by her children and her devastation when Saul dies. Inconsolable in her grief, she decides to convert to Judaism and writes her memoir, The Hadassah Chronicles.

This exceptional, character-driven novel has received rave reviews and has the makings of becoming a box-office smash hit. For more information on Dr. Diana E. Sheets, please visit her website at: http://www.literarygulag.com.