Oct. 16, 2019
Trial By Family

After Roselee Blooston's husband died, she wrote a memoir about her experience going forward from his death and dealing with the government of Dubai to settle is estate. Then her life continued forward and she became committed to sharing a novel she had already written with the world. But the subject of the novel was relevant to what she'd been through. Her legal drama , Trial By Family, touches the subjects of family, loss, and the effects of complicated grief. Diving into these territories even before she herself was touched by them leaves the reader wondering what she thinks about this unusual turn of events. How does publishing this novel evoke the experience of her own loss? And what does her book have to tell us about families dealing with loss, however dismally?