Just Released 2024
Mary’s Wings: A Novella
Just Released 2024
It is the 1920s and Mary, a young woman from Poland, leaves her family to move to Los Angeles where she is raped while working as as a restroom attendant in a nightclub carved out of rock. She decides to move to Montana to raise her son, Billy, there. When the train drops them off, she finds a Catholic church and marries God there, building a home for God, Billy and herself in an ancient forest.
Influenced by magical realism, Bernini’s Ecstasy of Saint Teresa and the Native American tradition of oral storytelling, Mary’s Wings is an allegory for the ushering in of a new era for humankind as well as a statement about women's spiritual and religious power.
Book Cover Illustrated by Patrick Atkins
Interior Design by Lorna Reid
Peter’s Moonlight Photography and Other Stories
Influenced by the Czech artist Mucha’s series on women and seasons, the title story of Dina Rabadi’s debut fiction collection follows an aging moonlight photographer’s quest for success and his models’ (all ordinary women) quest for a sense of beauty. Like the women in Mucha’s series, each of the women represents a season—summer, fall, winter and spring and in representing seasons represents Everywoman. Other stories range in theme and setting from the questionable success of the building of the atomic bomb to a motherless Spanish boy who becomes a perfume maker in the south of France. Several of Rabadi’s stories have been published in various periodicals including Fiction (2003 short story finalist.)
Editorial Reviews
"... wit, charm, feeling, depth"--David Evanier, Author, The One-Star Jew and former fiction editor, The Paris Review.
"These are stories Harold Ross would have chosen for the New Yorker because they are so intelligent and literate, but stories about an America he could have never envisioned. Dina Rabadi offers an honest voice about the country that evolved. They are haunting, lonely and so true."-- Vincent J. Schodolski, author and previous West Coast Bureau Chief, The Chicago Tribune
"Dina Rabadi guides us through the labyrinthine complexities of human relationships, embedded as they are in the world of nature."--Abel Alves, Professor of History and author of The Animals in Spain
behind the book
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