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A jaw-dropping novel about the power of secrets, the people who wield such sometimes inexpressible power and the women haunted by those secrets.
What’s in a Name is about Christine, who has remained silent about the events that led to her mother renaming her and about the real meaning of the name itself. As a married woman, she now finds herself in a battle to no longer remain silent.
The novel takes the reader on a searing journey that intimately portrays the lives of seven women. A must-read, it will change the way we view secrets, what we think of them and ultimately, how we address them, even the women who keep them.
Who’s Christine? Who’s Dell-Dell?
One woman calls herself Lena. Another calls herself Dell-Dell. Who are they?

Book description
Comparing a mother’s influence to the motions in a spiral galaxy that has a central bar-shaped structure, What’s in a Name begins what will be a thematic series of novels called The Barred-Spiral Trilogy. Each tale will focus on an allegory that children, residing within a mother’s galaxy of influence, are the stars. But they are affected by the motions—the events in their own lives and every encounter therein—that mothers effect.
At the core of one such mother-daughter cosmic dance is a name, “Lean-a.” Christine has remained silent about the events that involve her own mother renaming her and the real meaning of the name itself. There’s also a cagey seventy-five-year-old woman who has renamed herself Dell-Dell. When these two stars collide, they form a powerful connection and provoke questions about comeuppance and what they individually have compromised.
While the novel traces a path, through “the abuse and obscenity of silence,” back to a place where nicknames are not only ubiquitous but also shrouded in secrets, the narrative limns each character name with a message about regaining the lost self.

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While the novel traces a path, through “the abuse and obscenity of silence,” back to a place where nicknames are not only ubiquitous but also shrouded in secrets, the narrative limns each character name with a message about regaining the lost self.
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