Anesa Miller
Deep Thinker. Nature Lover. Author.
Native of Wichita, Kansas. Background in Russian studies and creative writing.
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“Deftly woven, complex and compelling… Memorable characters will hold the reader’s attention from beginning to end.”
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Our Orbit
In Our Orbit, nine-year-old Miriam Winslow has never worn new clothes, never had a haircut, and believes that sinners must repent with dramatic displays of remorse, or harm will come to their loved ones. Now thrust into foster care, Miriam must adapt to a secular lifestyle. Foster parents Rick and Deanne Fletcher quickly come to love their “new little girl.” Then, they meet the rest of Miriam’s clan: Uncle Dan believes he was abducted by aliens. Sister Rachelle, just out of juvenile detention, harbors painful secrets. Brother Josh is outraged that the Fletchers disrespect Christian teachings. He vows to take Miriam out of their home and put a stop to meddling in his family’s way of life.
A finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards for Best Fiction, Our Orbit captures the tension between modernity and tradition in the Appalachian corner of southern Ohio. It’s best described as “a literary novel that…reads at the pace of a thriller.”
“Our Orbit explores family and what it means to be one, or to be in one, for better and for worse. It explores the clash of customs and worldviews between traditional Appalachian and contemporary mainstream American culture. With deftness and skill, author Anesa Miller poses provocative questions about how we grow up along with or in spite of each other. Her narrative looks, without flinching, at the arbitrary nature of conflicting systems of authority and how these systems shape the individual life. We even get glimpses of the profound, the deeper Spirit that binds us, revealing our common humanity—all of this in a literary novel that never lapses into easy sentimentality and reads at the pace of a thriller.”
“Rejecting simplistic stereotypes, from “trashy” to “homophobic,”Miller invites readers to probe beyond immediate impressions. A compassionate, thoughtful narrative about hard-won self-realizations.”
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