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Giveaway: Members Only Holiday Giveaway

Welcome to the Mocha Girls Read Members Only Holiday Giveaway. This giveaway runs from 12:00 AM (midnight) ET on December 17th through 11:59 PM ET on December 24th. The winners will be contacted on or after December 26th.

Mocha Girls Read is pleased to offer the following prizes:

  • There will be five winners and each winner will receive a digital copy of A Memory of Fictions (or) Just Tiddy-Boom by Leonce Gaiter AND Hidden Room: The Nexus by S.D. Mayers.

To enter, use the Rafflecopter link below. This giveaway is limited to Mocha Girls Read members who are residents of the United States. All entries from non-club and non-US residents will be disqualified. Void where prohibited by law.

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Prizes:

A Memory of Fictions (or) Just Tiddy-Boom by Leonce Gaiter

A Memory of Fictions (or) Just Tiddy-Boom is a modern, jazzy take on the bildungsroman that uses everything from personal memoir, a fugue-like structure, poetry, images, lyrics, and diaries to paint a vivid, eloquent portrait of gay, black, Jessie Vincent Grandier and the striving African American middle class that spawned him in the late 1950s.

Born to a high-yellow, upper-crust New Orleans Creole mother and a lowborn, Louisiana bayou-bred, military father, Jessie steadfastly battles to reconcile his existence with expectations and preconceptions of those around him — black and white. He shoulders the weight of his black bourgeois family’s hopes through the ‘60s and ‘70s, his mother’s death, and the resulting familial melodrama that tears him and his family apart. If not broken, then seemingly irreparably bent, he wends his way through Harvard in the ‘70s and drinks his way through the Reagan ‘80s in gay bars from the LA barrio to Beverly Hills. When Jessie’s grandiose ambitions have abandoned him — when he’s almost beaten, and when it’s a breath away from too late, he looks back, regards the jagged shards of his life and pieces them into a remarkable whole.

The post-modern writing careens from pure ribaldry, to brutal honesty, to deeply tender, to “gonzoesque,” but at the intelligent heart of the novel is the internal struggle of dislocation, and the deconstruction of an African-American family. It is a completely unique look at race, sex, and finding redemption the hard way.

Hidden Room: The Nexus by S. D. Mayers

The year is 1995. An affluent African-American couple recently purchased a beautiful and spacious home. With its grand architecture and luxurious details, this home seemed like the perfect place to begin the next chapter of their lives. They felt a sense of pride and excitement as they moved in, ready to make new memories.

On this peculiar day, the couple invites a few friends over. They planned a gathering filled with laughter, good conversation, and the warmth of friendship. It was supposed to be an evening of joy and celebration, a time to show off their new home and create lasting impressions.

But something’s wrong. A strange feeling begins to settle over the evening. The couple starts to feel uneasy as if something is amiss. They can’t quite grasp it, but a sense of dread grows. Determined to find the source of their discomfort, the couple searches their home, room by room, hallway by hallway.

To their astonishment, they find another couple making love in a room they didn’t know existed. This room was not on any blueprints they had seen, and its sudden appearance was shocking and disturbing. The couple stands frozen, questioning their perception and wondering if their eyes are deceiving them.

Have you ever witnessed something and wondered if it was real? This surreal and unsettling moment leaves the couple questioning everything they thought they knew about their home. What is the true nature of this hidden room? Who are the mysterious lovers, and how did they come to be there?

Join me to discover what lies beyond the Hidden Room: The Nexus.

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To enter this Rafflecopter giveaway click here. This giveaway is limited to Mocha Girls Read members who are residents of the United States. All entries from non-club members and/or non-US residents will be disqualified. Void where prohibited.

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