About Me...
Rebecca Minnich grew up in Madison, Wisconsin and has an MFA from the creative writing program at City College of New York. There she received the Meyer Cohen Award for Excellence in Literature. Her writing, both fiction and nonfiction has been published in Coffin Factory, Promethean, POZ, MAMM and Z magazines, among others. She lives today in Brooklyn and teaches English as a Second Language at New York University and World Humanities City College of New York.
A Novel In Progress
The Light Under The Door – a young adult novel by Rebecca Minnich
Emily Delaney is about to start her senior year of high school, and everything has been turned upside-down. Her parents’ sudden divorce means she and her mother have to leave their Upper West Side apartment in Manhattan and move to Jackson Heights, Queens. If it isn’t nerve-wracking enough to have to start her senior year with a downsized family, commuting from a strange neighborhood, and trying to hide the fact that there’s no more money for ballet classes, now she’s got a ghost in her new bedroom.
The cold drafts, mysterious lights, and strange dreams lead her to Kevin Lee, a college student trapped between worlds since he took a lethal combination of sleeping pills and vodka. Kevin lived a life of in-betweens: Asian and American, gay and straight, A student D student, joy and despair. He didn’t really mean to die. But he may not have been cut out for life, either. How can he pass to the other side after dying alone, in silence, with nobody knowing his story? Nobody that is, until Emily comes along. The beautiful girl now living in his bedroom may be his only chance to finally be heard, to get his message to the people who mattered most in his short life.
Emily and her two best friends follow a series of perplexing clues, leading them on a wild ride into the dark side of college life. But the closer they get to Kevin, the deeper he gets into Emily’s head. He speaks to her in dreams, visions, even text messages. What really happened to him? Why does he lead them to a Chinese beauty parlor? And why is he warning her away from the gorgeous Egyptian college student next door? Emily’s mind is no longer her own. She must piece together Kevin’s story – or he may never let her go.