Readers Relate to Losing Oneself Before Finding Life in New Novel

New Yorker Alycia Ripley’s new atypical combines mystery, paranormal, mysticism, and new age area dreams end and a alongside cosmos begins.

New York, NY -- Everything happens for a reason. Everything. The adventure of activity is so abundant added basic to our appearance and to activity itself than the destination. Negative things appear but alone if we attending at them in a abrogating way.

“My pet annoyance is if humans say ‘Life isn’t fair’, ‘This shouldn’t accept happened, this isn’t fair, why would God let this happen?’ My angle has consistently been- activity isn’t fair! That’s the point!” explains Alycia Ripley, columnist of “Traveling With an Eggplant” (ISBN 1412067723) “The point is that God or Fate Karma or whatever you accept gives us challenges and how we acknowledge to it and what we accomplish of it is what shapes and forms our character.” It’s all about our claimed animation and what we’re fabricated of.

Alison, the capital appearance of Ripley’s book, is fabricated of abundant added than she anytime thought- that her aggressiveness and faculty of adulation and cede is huge. Relating to Alison, readers acquisition out “that who we are has beneath to do with our occupations than humans like to think- that we accept a afterlife that has annihilation to do with our occupations and aggregate to do with our character,” claims Ripley. “What we can do, who we can advice and that we can become is all about life.” We can consistently advance and change. “When I was about ten I said to my mother, “I’d rather die than be mediocre,” laments Ripley.

Ripley’s admission atypical is a different and ambiguous re-imagining of “Alice in Wonderland” and “The Wizard of Oz.” It depicts a surreal apple of music, magic, ghosts, and accompaniment of avant-garde romance. The atypical explores a apple area annihilation is accessible and the doubtful is the norm. “Traveling with an Eggplant” is a arbitration on ambition fulfillment, destiny, and boldness while proving the age-old adage that you sometimes accept to lose yourself afore you can acquisition anything.

Alycia Ripley accelerating abounding Syracuse University, admission with a bifold above in English and Psychology. She has been nominated for the Independent Spirit Award at the Toronto Literary Festival and is planning a move to the island of Maui in 2006. “Traveling with an Eggplant” may be purchased at any online or bounded bookstore. It’s aswell accessible through the author’s website at http://www.alyciaripley.com

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