HAPPY MAISY COLEMAN
A Novel
By Juli Huss

ISBN 0-9726357-7-7
Available June 04
275 pages, trade paperback
$14.95                 
                          
 

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“Happy Maisy Coleman is hypnotic and hysterical. Make yourself HAPPY, honey and read it!” —E. Jean Carroll, ELLE magazine

"Happy Maisy Coleman's holy rite of passage roars past a unique set of guide posts including a Holocaust-survivor psychiatrist, a carnal mother from hell, an Evangelical sinner of vast theology, with Sinatra, of all people, as a neighborly pragmatist. There are a few trips in life (and books) as bizarre, exhilarating and affecting as this one." —William Kinsolving, author of The Diplomats Daughter and Bred to Win

This is an irresistible multi-generational story about the Coleman family, early pioneers of the Salvation Army, who evolve from the darkest pits of poverty into the height of wealth, sensuality and beauty. The mystical, three-dimensional saga is narrated by great granddaughter Happy Maisy Coleman, who captures the searing heart-break of her rich and complex dysfunctional family with a surprising mix of intuitive genius and humor. A novel with a distinctly American touch, Happy Maisy Coleman dives into such fleshy subjects as female sexuality, Christianity, insanity and forgiveness.

Juli I. Huss is the author of The Faux Gourmet: A Single Woman's Confession on Food and Sex and Dish. She has been a repeated guest author and columnist on ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, Good Day New York, CNBC, CNN, Lifetime, A.M. Los Angeles, AM Seattle, AM San Francisco, AM Atlanta, Geraldo, The Michael Jackson Show (radio), The Dennis Praeger Show (radio). She is an Adjunct Lecturer for NYU School of Continuing Education and has written freelance articles for many magazines including Cosmopolitan and Manhattan Style interviewing celebrities such as Shania Twain, Lauren Hutton, Lou Reed, Carol Alt, Naomi Judd and Stephen Baldwin.

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