Maniac Drifter

by Laura Marello

Maya has amnesia about all her sexual experiences, but when her best friend Harper Martin is caught smuggling art objects into the country from Nicaragua she must forget her own problems and rally the townspeople of Provincetown to get him amnesty from prosecution. In the process of garnering town support, she immerses herself in town politics and dynamics and uncovers the role of forgiveness in healing her own pain.

217 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 11, 2016

About the author

Laura Marello's seventh book Matisse: The Only Blue, a novel about the second half of painter Henri Matisse's life, set in the south of France, is forthcoming in October 2022 from Guernica Editions, and available for preorder. Her poetry chapbook Balzac's Robe was the second finalist in Finishing Line Press' New Women's Voices Series. Her collection of stories, The Gender of Inanimate Objects is shortlisted for the Saroyan Prize. Her first and second and third novels, Claiming Kin (finalist for the Patterson Prize in Fiction, Tenants of the Hotel Biron, and Maniac Drifter, are also available at booksellers and online websites for booksellers.

Marello is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University and a Fine Arts Work Center Provincetown Fellowship. She has enjoyed writer's residencies at MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Millay Colony, Montalvo Center for the Arts, The Djerassi Foundation, and the Outer Cape Residency Consortium. She has recent work in The Adirondack Review and Ligea.