I CAN ONLY GIVE YOU EVERYTHING was recently named winner in the general fiction category of the 2011 Next Generation Indie Book Wards and received a silver medal in the 2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY's)
In order to cope with the death of her mother, nine year old Chloe Taggart builds the Mommy Machine, a soft sculpture constructed of materials infused with loss and memory. It is a piece so evocative of the actual woman that it soon finds national prominence among the elite of the contemporary art world. But even though Chloe’s father, Brian, has decided to forgo a tradition time of mourning with his daughter they are still not prepared for the incredible journey Chloe’s art provides them. It is a story about the nature of fame, the ever shifting criteria for fine art but mostly about how a father and daughter learn to live and love again redefining themselves not only to one another but to themselves as well. It is a book that in the words of one reader confirms that “life, art, love and loss are always so much bigger than we are.”
In order to cope with the death of her mother, nine year old Chloe Taggart builds the Mommy Machine, a soft sculpture constructed of materials infused with loss and memory. It is a piece so evocative of the actual woman that it soon finds national prominence among the elite of the contemporary art world. But even though Chloe’s father, Brian, has decided to forgo a tradition time of mourning with his daughter they are still not prepared for the incredible journey Chloe’s art provides them. It is a story about the nature of fame, the ever shifting criteria for fine art but mostly about how a father and daughter learn to live and love again redefining themselves not only to one another but to themselves as well. It is a book that in the words of one reader confirms that “life, art, love and loss are always so much bigger than we are.”
