Sere Prince Halverson
Seré Prince Halverson is the author of THE UNDERSIDE OF JOY, which was published by Dutton (Penguin) in January 2012 and will be translated into fifteen languages. She worked as a copywriter and creative director for 20 years while she wrote fiction and raised kids. Seré and her husband have four...
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Seré Prince Halverson is the author of THE UNDERSIDE OF JOY, which was published by Dutton (Penguin) in January 2012 and will be translated into fifteen languages. She worked as a copywriter and creative director for 20 years while she wrote fiction and raised kids. Seré and her husband have four (almost) grown children, and live in Northern California. You can visit her at www.sereprincehalverson.com
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What is one’s definition of a mother? Does the title automatically fall to a woman who gives birth, only to give the baby up for adoption immediately? Is it a title that is earned through the tender nurturing and loving of a child? Can one forfeit the title under certain circumstances? Can one earn ...
Sere Prince Halverson’s debut novel, The Underside of Joy, explores a family where the lack of a legal relationship between stepparent and stepchildren contributes to an already complicated situation. Having arrived on the scene just a few months after Joe Capozzi’s wife left him and their two small...
Review first published on my blog: http://memoriesfrombooks.blogspot.com/2012/01/underside-of-joy.htmlThe Underside of Joy is a book of a family - the one we are born with and the one we choose. Ella Beene has stumbled into and found a loving family - Joe and his children Zach and Annie and the whol...
I just read an ARC (advanced reader's copy) of this book and loved every moment.When Ella loses her husband she assumes she'll raise the step-children she loves as her own. Then their 'real' mother shows up to claim them and so begins a tug of war between two women for custody of the children they b...