Finding a Way Back

by Susan Clayton-Goldner

After the suicide of her husband, Bryan, Kelly Hadley is left to unravel the twisted web of addiction and deceit he left behind. She engages the help of Bryan's only brother, Michael, and together they learn that wiser, maybe even better, people can emerge from tragedy. They discover new truths about themselves, their relationships with their parents and their children, the meaning of friendship. Kelly and Michael come to understand love and what it means to be human.

200 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1994

About the author

Susan Clayton-Goldner was born in New Castle, Delaware and grew up with four brothers along the banks of the Delaware River. She is a graduate of the University of Arizona's Creative Writing Program and has been writing most of her life. Her novels have been finalists for The Hemingway Award, the Heeken Foundation Fellowship, the Writers Foundation and the Publishing On-line Contest. Susan won the National Writers' Association Novel Award twice for unpublished novels and her poetry was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies including Animals as Teachers and Healers, published by Ballantine Books, Our Mothers/Ourselves, by the Greenwood Publishing Group, The Hawaii Pacific Review-Best of a Decade, and New Millennium Writings. A collection of her poems, A Question of Mortality was released in 2014 by Wellstone Press. Prior to writing full time, Susan worked as the Director of Corporate Relations for University Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona.

Susan shares a life in Tucson, Arizona and Grants Pass, Oregon with her partner, John Carter, her fictional characters, and more books than one person could count.