Blood's Will - A Complicated Conversation | Thought-Provoking Novel for Book Clubs & Literary Discussions | Perfect for Readers Who Enjoy Deep Character Studies & Psychological Fiction
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Blood's Will - A Complicated Conversation | Thought-Provoking Novel for Book Clubs & Literary Discussions | Perfect for Readers Who Enjoy Deep Character Studies & Psychological Fiction
Blood's Will - A Complicated Conversation | Thought-Provoking Novel for Book Clubs & Literary Discussions | Perfect for Readers Who Enjoy Deep Character Studies & Psychological Fiction
Blood's Will - A Complicated Conversation | Thought-Provoking Novel for Book Clubs & Literary Discussions | Perfect for Readers Who Enjoy Deep Character Studies & Psychological Fiction
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In Blood’s Will: Speculative Fiction, Existence, and Inquiry of Currere, main character Campbell Cote Phillips―a successful university professor, mother, and wife―faces the question "what would she give up to have everything else?" Her comfortable life takes an unexpected turn when she discovers that not everything is always as it appears to be. The story unfolds between the 1970s and contemporary Baltimore, weaving together the experiences of Finn (an unusual vampire with a strange history) and Campbell―along with a cast of characters across different generations―whose stories are portrayed in base-relief against the promise, or peril, of immortality. Blood’s Will is about love and desire, but it is also about family, friends, and the choices we all make. To be human is to sacrifice. To be vampire is to have endless opportunities.As Noel Gough writes, "Understanding curriculum work as a storytelling practice has been a key theme in the reconceptualisation of curriculum studies during the last three decades, encapsulated by Madeleine Grumet’s formulation of curriculum as ‘the collective story we tell our children about our past, our present, and our future.’" Situated as a story embedded in the four stages of currere, the journey of the book’s main characters exemplifies the journey of recursion: the regressive, the progressive, the analytical, and the synthetic. Blood’s Will is an example of speculative fiction that "can contribute to an aspect of effective deliberation that Schwab called ‘the anticipatory generation of alternatives’" (Gough). This book is a useful reading for courses examining roles of narrative, fiction, and currere as fields of inquiry.
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Blood’s Will is a tour de force outlining the rich tapestry of decisions and dilemmas facing two lovers wrestling with decisions surrounding profound life changes against the backdrop of a fantasy dreamscape set in Baltimore, MD. The main characters and their respective friends weave a dramatic course of action throughout a gauntlet of challenges that illuminate their ever-intensifying romantic, obligational, and sexual tensions (is there a vampire and who is it?). Unlike many similar examinations of relationships, this trip through time, back and forth, exposes both the surface and deep workings of soul and mind and, uniquely, exposes what the characters “really think” about each other and their challenges and events progress. Their friends shape and influence the action and decisions made by the main characters as the suspense and tension build to a climax and a startling ending – or is it a beginning? Anyone who has ever had their life shattered and remade by improbable events will identify with the feelings and passions of the all-too-real characters crafted by this new author. The author has written what she knows – deconstructing herself into the kaleidoscope of events and impressions that combine and fuse to predict a book that’s impossible to put down. McDermott weaves an even more fascinating web of ideas a possibilities in her Introduction and Afterword, grist for reading by deep appreciators of literature.

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