Author Jenyfer Mathews will be at the Hovland Arts Festival during the July 4th weekend to discuss her newest book, Separation Anxiety, and three other books she has written.
In just the first few pages of Separation Anxiety, Jenyfer Matthews makes the reader see and understand what her protagonist, Aurora Rodgers Barrington, does not. The former middle-class girl turned society-wife drifts through her charity work and manages her household, thinking she is content. Until an errant e-mail message propels Aurora into a heartbreakingly awkward moment—and launches her on a journey of self-discovery.
Aurora is helped along the way by her outgoing and flamboyant friend, Kat—a character that rings true. If the readers don’t have a friend like Kat, they need to find one. Kat convinces Aurora to travel, and travel they do. As Aurora is convinced to travel from the Red Light District of Amsterdam to the Acropolis to Dubai, she slowly sheds the desolation and despair of her life in Philadelphia. By the time the women celebrate the New Year in Bangkok, Aurora has a new hairdo, a newfound confidence, and a new life plan.
The vivid descriptions of the international travels come easily to author Jenyfer Matthews, who is herself a world traveler— she was one of the many Americans who were forced to make a rapid departure from Cairo, Egypt, during the recent unrest. She admits to a “touch of wanderlust” and in addition to living in Cairo and the United Arab Emirates, she has visited Greece, Turkey, Germany, Italy, India, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Oman, and Qatar.
Matthews will be at the Hovland Arts Festival during the July 4th weekend, with not only Separation Anxiety, but her three other books (yet to be reviewed by the Cook County News-Herald). Stop by and talk to this world-traveling author, who lists Hovland as one of her favorite places to spend time. If you can’t make the Arts Festival, visit her website: www.jenyfermatthews.com.
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