Heather L Neff

Blackgammon

Blackgammon

Wisdom

Wisdom

Haarlem

Accident of Birth

Accident of Birth: A Novel

Reba Freeman has loved two men in her life. Her current husband, Carl, has supported her through their twenty-year marriage and given her all the material wealth a suburban wife could hope for. Reba is comfortable, if not necessarily content, in her life with Carl and their blossoming teenage daught...

Leila II:: The Moods of the Sea

"Leila II, The Moods of the Sea" Leila, the twelve-year-old daughter of illiterate parents, spent her childhood in a mud hut in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. Given to three strangers in payment for her father’s debts, she is forced to work in a brothel before being sold to a wealthy, prominent man...

Leila: The Weighted Silence of Memory

Twelve year old Leila knows little more of the world than the view from her family’s mud-brick hut on the steep slopes of the Atlas Mountains. Her greatest hope is to marry the son of the village shopkeeper and to live like all the women who came before her. Leila’s dreams are destroyed in one night...

Wisdom by Heather Neff (2002-04-30)

Leila: The Weighted Silence of Memory [Paperback] [2009] (Author) Heather Neff

Blackgammon

Blackgammon

A sweeping, unforgettable debut novel that traces remarkable parallel voyages of self-discovery, Blackgammon reveals the intertwined lives of two African-American women--soul sisters whose vow to stay true to one another will carry them through love, loss, and triumph on the way to finding out who t...

Haarlem: A Novel

“The only thing that’ll last forever is my Thirst . . . .”So says Abel Crofton as he explores the streets and canals of Amsterdam. A New York tunnel worker who’s struggling to stay sober after years of alcoholism, Abel is searching for the mother he’s never known. Despite having few clues as to her ...