Author: susanpetrone

Youngstown, Ohio, 1977. Between the closing of the city’s largest steel mill and the worst blizzard in more than 40 years, the table is set for remarkable change. Unemployed steel worker Bobby Wayland is trying hard to help his family and still pay for his wedding, but the only solution he can think of involves breaking the law. On the other side of town, a little girl named Hope is keeping a big … big secret, one she won’t even share with her Great Uncle Joe―she can make things move without touching them. Watching over both of them is the…

For three middle-aged women in the suburbs of Cleveland, the issues seemed compelling but relatively conventional: sending a child off to college, dealing with a marriage gone stale, feeling “invisible.” But changes were coming . . . and not the predictable ones. Because Margie, Katherine, and Abra are feeling a new kind of power inside of them – literally. Of all the things they thought they … might have to contend with as they got older, not one of them considered they’d be exploding a few gender roles by becoming superheroes.At once a delightful and surprising adventure and a thoughtful…