Winner of multiple book awards, THE LANDLADY OF MAPLE AVENUE, is a poignant and humorous literary family saga inspired by true events. Set in the 1950s, it follows the aging Marceline Gillis, an immigrant mother of seven, as she plots to reclaim her position as the family's chief matriarch and rightful landlady of a Victorian house on Maple Avenue. Battling family tensions, disappointments, and the grief of losing loved ones, Marceline navigates the complexities of power, ownership, and legacy within her tight-knit Catholic family. Her journey is filled with heartache and determination as she seeks validation after a lifetime of hardship.
WINNER OF AMERICAN WRITING AWARDS FINALIST Fiction & Women's Fiction
WINNER OF LITERARY TITAN BOOK AWARD Literary Fiction
WINNER OF READERS' FAVORITE AWARDS FIVE STARS Fiction & Literary Fiction
THE LANDLADY OF MAPLE AVENUE
Author: Suzanne Elizabeth Gillis
First Book/Novel - Family, Literary, Epic & Saga, Women's Interest, Drama, Elderly & Aging, Historical (After 1950 A.D.), Humor, Women's Chick Lit
It is an honor to announce the winner of THE AMERICAN WRITING AWARDS in Fiction & Women's Fiction for THE LANDLADY OF MAPLE AVENUE on behalf of Suzanne Elizabeth Gillis. This work is presented with the author's hope your organization will find it to be a worthy and engaging read.
The author's brief summary: THE LANDLADY OF MAPLE AVENUE is based on true stories about my father's immigrant family from Nova Scotia, Canada and centers around my grandmother Marceline Gillis who immigrated to Cambridge Massachusetts with her large family in the 1920s.
"With her dreams of homeownership stripped away from the aging immigrant mother of seven, a disgraced and diminished Marceline Gillis plots her way back to chief family matriarch claiming her rightful ownership of a three-family Victorian house purchased for her to live in while caring for alcoholic husband and disabled WWII veteran son, in this delightfully entertaining family saga."
