The author, on how her dogs got their names:
About a week before Mavis came home, Erin was walking on a bike trail and someone behind her started calling “Mavis! Mavis!” She turned around and was being chased by a pig. The man yelling the name finally emerged and yelled, “Be careful!” Having grown up on a hog farm, Erin knew pigs could get mean so stayed still and hoped for the best. She still doesn’t know if the pig was family or dinner. Mavis’s knicknames are Hoob and F*cknut.About Erin Flanagan's Blackout, from the publisher:
Lorna was named by Barry, a compromise Erin agreed to in order to get a second dog. Lorna also goes by...[read on]
In this unforgettable psychological thriller, the dark is a terrifying mystery for a woman on the edge.Visit Erin Flanagan's website.
Seven hard-won months into her sobriety, sociology professor Maris Heilman has her first blackout. She chalks it up to exhaustion, though she fears that her husbandand daughter will suspect she’s drinking again. Whatever their cause, the glitches start becoming more frequent. Sometimes minutes, sometimes longer, but always leaving Maris with the same disorienting question: Where have I been?
Then another blackout lands Maris in the ER, where she makes an alarming discovery. A network of women is battling the same inexplicable malady. Is it a bizarre coincidence or something more sinister? What do all the women have in common besides missing time? Or is it who they have in common?
In a desperate search for answers, Maris has no idea what’s coming next―just the escalating paranoia that her memories may be beyond her control, and that everything she knows could disappear in the blink of an eye.
The Page 69 Test: Blackout.
My Book, The Movie: Blackout.
Coffee with a Canine: Erin Flanagan & Mavis and Lorna.
--Marshal Zeringue
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