About
The Book:
Author: Terez Mertes
Rose
Pub. Date: January
2, 2021
Publisher: Classical
Girl Press
Formats: Paperback,
eBook
Pages: 372
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It's 1990, and New York soloist April Manning is trying to rebalance her world in the aftermath of her parents’ deaths. An offer to join the struggling West Coast Ballet Theatre as a principal dancer seems like the perfect opportunity for a fresh start—a new life in San Francisco, an exciting step up in her career, and the hope of a redefined sense of family. But the other dancers are wary, clannish and tight-lipped, particularly about an incident that hastened the departure of their beloved artistic director, leading to the arrival of his replacement, the young, inexperienced Anders Gunst. And no one wants to talk about Jana, a former company member who defiantly walked out rather than work under Anders. It is Jana herself who offers April hints, and even friendship, where she reveals a loneliness and hunger to belong that newly orphaned April well understands. But there is something troubling about Jana, and what April doesn’t know could prove deadly.
A prequel to the Ballet Theatre Chronicles, BALLET ORPHANS explores the work and sacrifices required to arrive at the highest tiers of the professional ballet world, coupled with the primal, universal desire to belong, to love and be loved, and the lengths we’ll go to protect those we call family.
“A stimulating and entertaining tale in which
passion and art intermingle.” — Kirkus Reviews
About Terez:
Terez Mertes Rose is a writer
and former ballet dancer whose work has appeared in the Crab Orchard
Review, Literary Mama, Women Who Eat (Seal Press), A Woman’s
Europe (Travelers’ Tales), the Philadelphia Inquirer and
the San Jose Mercury News. She reviews dance performances for
Bachtrack.com and blogs about ballet and classical music at The Classical Girl.
The author of the Ballet Theatre Chronicles and A Dancer's Guide to
Africa, she makes her home with family in the Santa Cruz Mountains. She
loves good food, good wine, great books, and a good (but not too hard) adult
ballet class. She's proud to announce that Outside the Limelight, Book
2 of the Ballet Theatre Chronicles, was named a Best Book of 2017 by Kirkus
Reviews.
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