Penelope Przekop
Auteur van Aberrations
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- Geboortedatum
- 1966-07-20
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Opleiding
- Louisiana State University (BS)
Southern Polytechnic State University (MS) - Beroepen
- writer
consultant (pharmaceutical industry)
artist - Organisaties
- American Society for Quality - Senior Member
Narcolepsy Network - Agent
- Christi Cardenas (Agent)
Brian Feinblum (Publicist) - Korte biografie
- Penelope Przekop is the author of Aberrations: A Novel (Emerald/Greenleaf) and Six Sigma for Business Excellence (McGraw-Hill). Her blog, Aberration Nation, provides weekly thought-provoking essays encompassing various universal themes such as truth, forgiveness, choice, boundaries, relationships, etc. Penelope has a BS in Biology and an MS in Quality Assurance/Systems. Most recently, she was a director for Johnson & Johnson.
Her debut novel, Aberrations, follows the plight of Angel Duet, a young woman struggling with narcolepsy. The novel covers numerious universal themes such as mental illness, parenthood, individuality, friendship, and love. Aberrations is being hailed as the sleeper surprise of the summer!
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- #216,911
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- 4.0
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- 27
- ISBNs
- 12
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I'm not going to lie, I found Centerpieces completely intriguing and compelling, but I don't even know how to describe it. I'm not really sure I've ever read anything like it before. I felt there were just as many questions at the end of the book as there were at the beginning (what exactly are Theo and Vincent, what has kept them alive for so long, what part does the drug taperaquin play in their extended lives), but somehow these questions didn't really need answering at the end. If you just accept the fact that van Gogh is alive 100+ years after his death, that there may be more to his existence and what he has become that what is said, then you will have no problem making your way through this story.
Przekop has said that she wrote this book as an answer to questions she had raised in her own life while working for a pharmaceutical company and wanting to lead a more artistic life. I can see a lot of this conundrum in both Ellis and Holly, as they try to find their way in the regimented world of pharmaceuticals while their actual calling in life is art. Przekop masterfully weaves their lives together, with elements from both the past and present, to help them reach their ultimate potential, as both people and as artists.
Like her book, Aberrations, Przekop takes people with everyday problems and makes their story into something that needs to be told. With Aberrations, it was accepting yourself for who you are regardless of what others think about you. With Centerpieces, it's about finally accepting the parts of your life that may not fit in with the path that you thought you planned for yourself, and deciding that sometimes you need to strike out on that unfamiliar path, even if it means walking away from what you think your life is all about.
Obviously extensively researched, Przekop weaves van Gogh's art, his life, his family and actual historic events together to create a story that is both about humanity and art. What exactly are Vincent and Theo in this modern world? We may never know for sure, but their story is one of brotherly love and of art, and one that I enjoyed reading. I hope to see more of Przekop's stories published in the future. Hers is a unique voice in the literary world that needs to be heard.… (meer)