On November 30th, 2021, Kathie Giorgio’s 12th book (6th novel), All Told will be released. A special launch event will be hosted by the Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books and our streaming partner, Books and Company, Oconomowoc.
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Until then, we have a glimpse of the story: Imagine being an “other woman”, and then finding out that you’re not the only one. There have been many other women, before you and even standing alongside you right now.
Jack learned early that one is never enough. Each chapter tells the experience of someone affected by Jack’s trysts. Some of the women are married, some single, some divorced. The ages vary as Jack grows older.
Then the reach goes further, to the ripple effect of hurt caused by infidelity. There is an adult son Jack never knew he fathered. There’s also a bartender on the cusp of meeting the woman of his dreams, only to have Jack whisk her away by saying just the right thing. And there is a doctor who is shocked by Jack’s abandonment of her patient, one of the Other Women with breast cancer.
All Told tells more than the story of infidelity. It goes beyond the typical triangle of husband,
wife, and lover. As the stories grow and the involvements become more interconnected and convoluted, the question of who is cheating on who and why becomes more difficult to answer. Each chapter reveals another secret. But every secret has two sides, and in some cases, even more than that.
KATHIE GIORGIO
Kathie Giogio is the author of five novels, two story collections, an essay collection, and two poetry chapbooks. A poetry chapbook, Olivia In Five, Seven, Five; Autism In Haiku, will be released in August 2022. She’s been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in both fiction and poetry and awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Wisconsin Library Association, the Silver Pen Award for Literary Excellence, the Pencraft Award for Literary Excellence, and the Eric Hoffer Award In Fiction. She is the director and founder of the international creative writing studio, AllWriters’ Workplace & Workshop LLC.
