Balloon Days - Softcover

Strong, Kristi

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798218475079

Publisher: Strong Literary, 2023

Synopsis

Genre-blending and emotionally rich, Balloon Days powerfully highlights the longing for acceptance, the agonizing struggle when our morals are put to the test, and the conflict between escapism and responsibility. It is a moving exploration of the entwined layers of one's mind, pulling us deep into the psyche and returning us to the shallow with sincere insight.

Let Your Perception Be Your Guide...

At the Manhattan-based Center of Balloon Days, you will find a psychotherapy unlike any that came before it. Imagine unlocking your desires and your fears and manipulating them in an unparalleled lucid-dream-like state.

Bookish Elliott Bailey, a young psychologist at the Center, struggles to prove the perfect life exists, all while helping others with their own troubles; love-starved Howard Nor's use of Balloon Days lends him temporary respite from the grips of depression, but they may be allowing him to live in a fantasy while his real life falls apart; and top lawyer Orson Thatch develops an obsession with Balloon Days, as it's the only time he can see his dead wife-even if it risks his career and his relationship with his seven-year-old son. All three face a choice: Continue to live a life rooted in illusions or overcome the challenges of reality.

About this title

About the Author

Kristi Strong is a newly published author of her debut novel Balloon Days, a psychological and literary fiction, with elements of magical realism and hints of romance.Kristi is a full-time mental health therapist. A writer. A dreamer. A traveler. She won Honorable Mention in a Writer's Digest short story competition, and was published by Pen It Publications, PsychCentral, Thrive Magazine, and Clinical Medicine: Women's Health journal. Kristi's profession enhanced her ability to develop characters. She strives to create multi-layered characters that drive her stories; and paints emotionally steered scenes increasing in intensity as the plot pans out.

Edition details

• Publisher: Strong Literary
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798218475079
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 308