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TRUTH ABOUT DELILAH BLUE: A Novel What if you woke up one day to learn that you were a child on a milk carton? This is the provocative premise of Tish Cohen’s new novel, to be published on the heels of news that Fox 2000 will produce her previous novel, Town House, as a feature film starring Amy Adams (Julie & Julia) and Zack Galifianakis (The Hangover). Delilah Blue has always been a bit of an outsider ever since she moved from Toronto to Los Angeles when she was eight. Her only real companion in life is her father. Now twenty and desperate to become an artist like her long-lost mother, but unable to pay for classes, Delilah does something nearly unthinkable. She takes a job as an art model, posing nude for a classroom full of students so she can learn from the professors. But anxiety over exposing her body is the least of her problems when her father starts to become disoriented and forgetful, signs that he is going through early-onset Alzheimer’s. The disease presents itself just as Delilah’s long-estranged mother, who she always believed abandoned the family, re-enters the scene with a young daughter in tow and reveals a secret about the past that will permanently change their lives. Delilah must decide if her mother is the selfish woman she’s always assumed left her behind or whether somewhere deep inside her father’s memory is the truth behind the family’s separation. Told with wit and poignancy, THE TRUTH ABOUT DELILAH BLUE showcases Tish Cohen’s talent in finding the humor and heart in the most dysfunctional of families. |
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