Meet Me in the In-Between

A provocative and lively memoir in stories by the bestselling, "Richard and Judy" selected author of The Summer of the Bear Growing up the middle child of transatlantic parents -- her down- to-earth mother and romantic father -- Bella Pollen never quite figured out how to belong. Restlessly crossing back and forth between the boundaries of family and freedom, England and America, home and away, she has sought but generally failed to contain an adventurous spirit within the confines of conventional living.

When she awakes one morning stymied by an existential panic, Pollen grudgingly concludes that in order to move forward, she needs to take a good look at her past. In 'Meet Me in the In-Between', Pollen takes us on the illuminating journey of a life, from her privileged, unorthodox childhood in Upper Manhattan through early marriage to a son of an alluring Mafioso, to the dusty border towns of Mexico where she falls in with a crowd of Pink Floyd-loving smugglers. Throughout it all, Bella grapples intently with relationships, motherhood, career ups and downs, and a pathological fear of being boxed in.

Interwoven with exquisite passages of graphic memoir, this is a tender, funny, and deeply honest story of one woman's quest to keep looking for the extraordinary in an ordinary life. With a patented mix of humor and pain, novelist Bella Pollen takes a dead-on look at what it means to be a smart, reasonably sane woman navigating the modern world.

O memorie provocatoare si plina de viata in povestile celor mai bine vandute, „Richard si Judy”, autorul selectat al The Summer of the Bear Crescand copilul mijlociu al parintilor transatlantici - mama ei si tatal romantic - Bella Pollen mi-am dat seama cum sa apartii. Trecand nelinistit inainte si inapoi intre granitele familiei si libertatii, Anglia si America, acasa si departe, ea a cautat, dar in general nu a reusit sa contina un spirit aventuros in limitele vietii conventionale.