A Three-Tiered Pastel Dream

Overview

A career-focused woman finds her life taken off course by an unexpected pregnancy. A troubled doctor abandons her family on her daughter's birthday, the three-tiered pastel layer cake in the passenger seat beside her. A young mother must contend with how to explain her husband's suicide to their child. In her first story collection, Lesley Trites digs bravely into the dilemmas faced by contemporary women who must be everything to everyone. Written with keen insight and deep affection, Lesley Trites's A Three-Tiered Pastel Dream unearths pearls of wisdom from the secret lives of everyday women.

Author Biography

Lesley Trites is the author of a collection of poetry, echoic mimic. Her fiction has recently appeared in carte blanche, The Tupelo Quarterly, and the anthology Salut King Kong: New English Writing from Quebec, and her nonfiction has been published in The Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Montreal Gazette, among others. A finalist in the 2013 Quebec Writing Competition, Lesley grew up in Fredericton, New Brunswick and now lives in Montreal.