Elastic

A story happening in real time. Faye and Beatrice are cousins, closer than sisters in every way that counts-and yet, for six months, they haven't spoken. What begins as a fractured silence is just the tip of a story that stretches back years, weaving through childhood and adolescence, uncovering the ways the world tests them, bends them, and refuses to let them be.

Elastic is a journey through the tangled lives of two young women navigating parental control, religious extremism, inherited trauma, and the strange, isolating rites of growing up creative in a world that doesn't always understand. From chaotic pre-TV auditions at 4 a.m. to the dizzying, lonely corridors of adulthood, weird dating experiences, the book moves seamlessly across time, hopping from memory to memory, moment to moment.

At its heart, this is a story about music and ambition, about the calling that can't be ignored, and about the messy, sometimes suffocating, bonds between mothers, daughters, family, friends, and cousins. It is about what it means to grow up, to fight, and to hold on to what you love even when the world seems determined to pull it away.

Raw, unflinching, and immersive, Elastic is a story of survival, talent, and the ties that stretch-but sometimes snap-between those we love most.