Mama's extra quiet this fall, and the house is breathing early.Maruyama explores the dangers of tradition, inheritance, and the sins of the father in this horror novella. It is her family duty.But something about this year is different. She's excited finally to be in the know.She does know that whatever happens in the basement every December 21 makes it possible for the Masseys to spend the rest of the year enjoying their home and all that it brings. Her older siblings won't tell her exactly what's in the basement, you don't know until you're fighting it. Maruyama paints such human portraits of all the characters that their choices and convictions will forever haunt me.
Kate is a Los Angeles Undergraduate faculty member in Creative Writing. FAMILY SOLSTICE brings us into a world where a house breathes and children do heroic battle in its basement only to discover that the enemy they're battling isn't anything they ever could have envisioned. She's thirteen and that means this is her year to battle on Solstice. Kate Maruyama ‘09 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) had her novella, Family Solstice, named Best Fiction Book of 2021 in the latest issue of Rue Morgue Magazine. But come fall, the mood shifts as all of the kids start training for their turn in the basement.Shea, the youngest Massey is training extra hard. In the summer everyone comes through to visit and the house is alive with family friends, barbecues and lobster boils. It's been in the family for generations, and the land on which it sits has been with them even longer.
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