Sometimes the most amazing surprises happen. Including this one! Ever grateful to Karin Greenberg (@bookswithkg on Instagram) for the incredible praise and love for my novel Sybelia Drive. It’s more than heartening to know that, even years after entering the world, a book can truly find appreciative, understanding, supportive readers. I’m in awe of and so thankful this beautiful review!
"First Kisses, Real & Imagined"
“In the past few months, my story collection The Geography of First Kisses has allowed a way in for prospective readers to speak of their own first kisses. A First Lady’s first kiss as a young girl under a front porch light. An elderly gentleman’s remembrance of full lips under a full moon. A girl’s memory of butterfly kisses from when she was much younger with her grandmother, their eyelashes fluttering together, and her grandmother laughing and saying,“Honestly? The first one? No idea,” her voice trailing behind her, the memory gone. And while these stories are lovely and spontaneous, it’s the first kisses in literature, rather than in real life, that draw me in.”
- from “First Kisses, Real & Imagined,” a little essay I wrote on first kisses, mostly literary ones, inspired by readers, novels, and the stories of The Geography of First Kisses & featured in the Women’s Writers, Women’s Books’ ON WRITING column
Springtime is blooming with Sybelia Drive Book Reviews
From Emily Webber’s book review of Sybelia Drive in Mom Egg Review:
“The effect of the multiple voices in Sybelia Drive is like being in a big shifting ocean, and you never know what or who is going to be churned up and if the waters will be rough or calm. We aren’t promised complete pictures of these lives, which is clear early on. Characters come and go, some getting only a chapter or two and fleeting mentions in other parts of the novel, but every character is deeply felt. Davidson weaves a complex and rich tapestry of each of these lives regardless of how much space they take up in the novel.”
Gratitude for another beautiful Sybelia Drive review!
May 2021 Independent Publisher Booklist - by Ellie Hawkes
Sybelia Drive included in the amazing May 2021 Booklist
chosen by book blogger, Ellie Hawkes.
Mother's Day on Sybelia Drive
This Mother’s Day the mamas of SYBELIA DRIVE—Eva, Minnie, and Lillian—are sitting together in lawn chairs by the lake, little paper umbrellas in their drinks. It’s cool in the shade, and they’re laughing and laughing. Want to join them? 🌸🍹🌴☀️
Buy your own mama and yourself a copy 💕