Musical Chairs: A Story About Panic and One Woman's Journey to Overcome it Through Self-Exploration

Nov. 22, 2009 - PRLog -- As Jen Knox gears up for her first public appearances to promote her new memoir, the reviews are pouring in.  This gritty but inspirational story is currently featured at Alvah's Books Reviews http://www.alvahsbooks.com/book-reviews/musical-chairs-jen-knox/
TCM Book Reviews http://tcm-ca.com/reviews/3276.html, Reader Views, and elsewhere.

She is currently available for radio and online interviews.  

About the Book:

Musical Chairs
All Thing That Matter Press (2009)
ISBN: 13: 9780984259427

After suffering a series of severe panic attacks, Jen begins to explore her past.  In doing so, she becomes enamored by the mysterious nature of her family's history.  She discovers a pattern of mental health diagnoses and searches to define the cusp between her '90s working-class childhood and the trouble of adapting to a comfortable life in the suburbs.

Jen attempts to reconcile with her past and the family she ran away from at age fifteen.  With humor and surprising candor, she reflects upon years of strip-dancing, alcoholism, and estrangement while maintaining impressive narrative control. This story is about identity, class, family ties, and the elusive nature of mental illness.

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Jen Knox is a fiction editor at Our Stories Literary Journal. Her writing has been published in numerous print and online journals. Musical Chairs will be featured in the forthcoming Luminaria Festival held in San Antonio.