Popcorn House Publishing
FINDING ALBERTA
A novel about love, grief, and what is remembered and misunderstood.
About the Book
Finding Alberta is my debut novel about love, grief, and the slow forming of identity. It is a story about mothers and daughters, about what is remembered and what is misunderstood, and about the quiet ways clarity arrives over time. Set between Detroit and Howell, Michigan, it traces the tender and complicated threads that bind a family together long after loss.
An Excerpt
“Why don’t you talk about her?”
“There’s nothing to talk about.”
“I know you two had a hard relationship.”
“Hard doesn’t describe it. That woman was impossible to please.”
Silence settled between them.
“She wasn’t all bad, was she?” Brian asked carefully.
Holidays were warm. The kitchen smelled like butter and garlic. Alberta laughed loud with her sisters. Those moments existed.
But so did the other ones.
“I don’t talk about her,” Tiffani said finally. “I don’t think about her. If I did, I couldn’t do anything else. She cripples me. I can feel her judgment across state lines. Even across the ocean I wouldn’t escape it. So I put her out of my mind. I have my daddy and Sabri. That’s enough.”
About the Author
Martina Griffin is a writer and educator. She writes about faith, family, and the quiet work of becoming. Finding Alberta is her debut novel.