Nettie Marie Magnan
Nettie Marie Magnan is a writer turned nurse, turned writer again. Raised on the vast and rural prairie landscape that inspires her stories, it wasn’t until years of nursing that she felt compelled to write about loss, hope, the complexities of human relationships, and the beauty and torment and strangeness of being alive. Stories with a healthy mix of melancholy and optimism are the ones she’s always been drawn to, after all.
When she’s not busy working as a nurse or writing sad but optimistic tales, she can be found sketching the pretty elements of the prairie landscape, spending time with her family and cats, failing at both gardening and cooking, and as a lover of antiques, she enjoys volunteering at a local heritage museum.
Dropseed: The Story of Three Sad Women is her debut novel, and she hopes to carry readers into a place where the tedium and tragedy of everyday life is embellished into something lyrical, memorable, and helpful. (coming 2024)
Intertwining stories bring together three women and the heaviness of choice. In a small prairie town where the landscape is both beautiful and isolating, we meet an artist, a caregiver, and a dying woman, each bonded by their parallel struggles with fulfillment and the inconsistencies of human connection.
Confined to monotony and caring for her mother, Sally enlists the curative elements of her art to ease a growing sense of guilt. An elderly Mary, meanwhile, grapples with a loss of independence and the ghosts of meaningful conversations. Her unmarried caregiver, Beth, reconciles the emptiness of a home without children with the possibilities ahead of her, and a renewed connection with Sally.
A poignant and emotional narrative that balances the consuming weight of quiet sorrows against the small joys that propel us forward, Dropseed: The Story of Three Sad Women is a brave and vulnerable look at womanhood.
For fans of Margaret Laurence, or Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, Dropseed is an emotional journey that explores the complexities of womanhood and the power of redemption. Don't miss out on this powerful and thought-provoking novel.
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Paperback | 362 pages | Literary Fiction
