Threads and Tethers is now available on Amazon.com.
My debut novel, Threads and Tethers, is an immigrant story of a couple, a Serbian woman and a Northern Irishman, Marica and Will. Despite their dark pasts, which they have kept silent within themselves over the years, Will and Marica create a beautiful present for themselves and their two daughters. They are a normal, happy, loving American family.
But when a suitcase and a letter from Belfast arrive, secrets spill out and threaten the very marrow of the life that they built together. Can Marcia and Will overcome their feelings of betrayal? Can they save their marriage—and their family? Will they accomplish the most important mission of their lives: to give their daughters what the two of them did not have—stable childhoods?
Available soon:
The theatrical drama, Our Ancestors, written in Serbian with the original title Наши преци, is a story of love and war. It depicts Serbia in World War One—its peasants, its sacrifice, its endurance, and its vision for the future. It reveals Serbia in the 1930s, the one that survived despite having lost a quarter of its population. It then frames this memory in our own, present generation narrative.
The main question that Our Ancestors poses is how a country in such circumstance can survive. My own answer is love, profound and enduring love. Well… and a miracle.
Our Ancestors is a story that flows in the bloodstream of all peoples whose ancestors lived through a war, any war, whether on the home front or the front. It was inspired by the exceptional graphic novel The Pocket Watch (original title: Сат), written by a Serbian artist and storyteller, Dragan Lazarevic.
Coming out in 2027:
My second novel, Ancestors and Descendants, is in the draft phase. It is another immigrant saga narrated through several time periods, moving from the beginnings of Washington State to today. Ancestors and Descendants tells the story of a Serbian and an Irish family, their deep friendship, their later separation, and their descendants’ finding their way to each other five generations later.