Ask the Author: Anker Frankoni
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Anker Frankoni
"Mexican Eskimo Book 2: Octopus Asylum"
(Which begins) "We didn't get to make love that morning. It was to be Gia's birthday fuck. A present she was reluctant to either give or receive, having born our third child only 14 days earlier; but she knew it had to happen: one doesn't just blow off the birthday fuck. That was one of the things that first caused me to fall in love with Gia: she said, "What other day can a pussy draw you so far into the infinite?" and insisted that I should have my birthday fuck just three nights after we met. A seven year ritual between us by then, which started as the sly reminiscence of a joke for the first few years, but evolved into something that each of us felt as superstitious about as a chain letter — silly, we knew, but both loath to break it lest some bad bit of luck result... little did we know the curses that would befall our love."
But I'm getting ahead of myself! "Octopus Asylum" is scheduled for release in mid to late 2015... plenty of time for you to read "Mexican Eskimo Book 1: Exmikan" which is available now in print, Kindle, and audiobook formats at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JY8SXBW
(Which begins) "We didn't get to make love that morning. It was to be Gia's birthday fuck. A present she was reluctant to either give or receive, having born our third child only 14 days earlier; but she knew it had to happen: one doesn't just blow off the birthday fuck. That was one of the things that first caused me to fall in love with Gia: she said, "What other day can a pussy draw you so far into the infinite?" and insisted that I should have my birthday fuck just three nights after we met. A seven year ritual between us by then, which started as the sly reminiscence of a joke for the first few years, but evolved into something that each of us felt as superstitious about as a chain letter — silly, we knew, but both loath to break it lest some bad bit of luck result... little did we know the curses that would befall our love."
But I'm getting ahead of myself! "Octopus Asylum" is scheduled for release in mid to late 2015... plenty of time for you to read "Mexican Eskimo Book 1: Exmikan" which is available now in print, Kindle, and audiobook formats at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JY8SXBW
Anker Frankoni
Dear Goodreads Team:
Thanks for asking - this isn't an easy one to answer, but since so much of "Mexican Eskimo" is about facing Truth, I'll be quite frank...
The impetus to write the book came about gradually, and not necessarily by choice. It was the result of internal conflicts that began during an intense period of self-analysis and research into the side of my family that I never really knew growing up, as I attempted to answer the very difficult question that exploded into my reality in June of 2004: "Why the hell did my mother shoot herself — didn't she have everything??"
The crush of emotions that followed eventually settled into analytical thoughts. Soon after, those began expressing themselves as scraps of notes, pieced together from my memories and the pieces of her own writing that Anne left behind. It wasn't long before the notes became passages, compiled page after page as my discoveries continued. Before long, I received the instruction (from myself, and signals originating far outside my head, the source of which I still do not entirely understand) that I was to write a book.
The end result of this process is my first novel, "Mexican Eskimo," which in many ways is simply a story about growing up. It's also a love story about finding trust and hope amidst generations of anger and neglect, suicide and substance abuse. It's a trip through the dark which ends up in the light however, and ultimately a joyful statement about something I'd like to share with anyone forced to grapple with the pain and stigma of abuse in their family's history: the violation of innocence creates broken families and damaged people. Those who are thrust into the middle of such cycles have a hard time breaking the chain and creating new positive family stories, but with love, patience, and the willingness to look beyond the blame and anger that many of us rightly feel towards the people we come from and hold a mirror up to our own faces, it can be done!
Thanks for asking - this isn't an easy one to answer, but since so much of "Mexican Eskimo" is about facing Truth, I'll be quite frank...
The impetus to write the book came about gradually, and not necessarily by choice. It was the result of internal conflicts that began during an intense period of self-analysis and research into the side of my family that I never really knew growing up, as I attempted to answer the very difficult question that exploded into my reality in June of 2004: "Why the hell did my mother shoot herself — didn't she have everything??"
The crush of emotions that followed eventually settled into analytical thoughts. Soon after, those began expressing themselves as scraps of notes, pieced together from my memories and the pieces of her own writing that Anne left behind. It wasn't long before the notes became passages, compiled page after page as my discoveries continued. Before long, I received the instruction (from myself, and signals originating far outside my head, the source of which I still do not entirely understand) that I was to write a book.
The end result of this process is my first novel, "Mexican Eskimo," which in many ways is simply a story about growing up. It's also a love story about finding trust and hope amidst generations of anger and neglect, suicide and substance abuse. It's a trip through the dark which ends up in the light however, and ultimately a joyful statement about something I'd like to share with anyone forced to grapple with the pain and stigma of abuse in their family's history: the violation of innocence creates broken families and damaged people. Those who are thrust into the middle of such cycles have a hard time breaking the chain and creating new positive family stories, but with love, patience, and the willingness to look beyond the blame and anger that many of us rightly feel towards the people we come from and hold a mirror up to our own faces, it can be done!
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