Coffee with a canine: Kristina Riggle & Lucky

This weekend's featured duo at Coffee with a Canine: Kristina Riggle and Lucky.

The author, on Lucky's contribution to her writing:

Lucky keeps me company (especially if there’s a storm, and then he’s underfoot every moment). In fact, he has an uncanny sense of time. When I’m getting up during the day to have coffee or lunch or what have you, he barely stirs from his favorite napping spot on the couch cushion…until it’s time for me to wrap up and go get the kids. Then he seems to know, and perks up, because the boring writing day is over and it’s time for the fun to begin when the kiddos get home.

He does like to keep me company when I write outside on the deck, so...[read on]

About Riggle's new novel, The Whole Golden World, from the publisher:

Kristina Riggle, the acclaimed author of Real Life & Liars, returns with a thought-provoking novel inspired by real-life events

Seventeen-year-old Morgan Monetti shocks her parents and her community with one simple act: She chooses to stand by the man everyone else believes has exploited her—popular high school teacher TJ Hill. Quietly walking across a crowded courtroom to sit behind TJ, and not beside her parents, she announces herself as the adult she believes herself to be.

But her mother, Dinah, wants justice. Dinah is a fighter, and she believes with all her heart and soul that TJ is a man who took advantage of her daughter. He is a criminal who should be brought to justice, no matter what the cost to his family.

Rain, TJ's wife, is shocked that her handsome, loving, respected husband has been accused of a terrible crime. But has her desperation to start a family closed her eyes to the fault lines in her marriage? And can she face the painful truths about herself and her husband?

Told from the perspectives of these three remarkable women, The Whole Golden World navigates the precarious territory between childhood and adulthood, raising questions about love and manipulation, marriage and motherhood, consent and responsibility. It's a novel both shocking and unforgettable in its power.

Learn more about the book and author at Kristina Riggle's website.

The Page 69 Test: Real Life & Liars.

Coffee with a Canine: Kristina Riggle & Lucky (June 2009).

Writers Read: Kristina Riggle (August 2010).

The Page 69 Test: The Life You've Imagined.

Read--Coffee with a Canine: Kristina Riggle & Lucky.

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