Forthcoming
The Sixteenth
Covering the evolution of sister relationships in the timespan of Ann Napolitano's Hello Beautiful, Tricia Bauer's The Sixteenth reveals a family saga in the successive points of view of four generations of young women when each is in her sixteenth year. The book opens on the death of JFK with Kathleen left to raise her younger sisters when their mother suddenly dies, and their grief-stricken father moves out of the family home in Baltimore.
Pushing beyond story to test the limits of a novel, I wanted to explore with this new book how viewpoint, given over to a progression of young women through time could reflect on family history as well as history itself--how it's interpreted and changed by the young.