"If you ever want to hide from the world, live in a small city, where everyone seems anonymous."
That's the advice of 12-year-old Ariella Montero, who lives with her father in Saratoga Springs, NY, in a house haunted more by secrets than by memories. THE SOCIETY OF S traces her journey south, to Asheville and Savannah, and on to Florida, as she learns that everything she knows about her family is a lie.
Set in Saratoga Springs, Savannah, and Homosassa Springs, FL, THE SOCIETY OF S traces a year in the education of thirteen-year-old Ariella Montero. Under the influence of Keats, Bertrand Russell, T.S. Eliot, and Jack Kerouac, Ari learns that she isn't "normal," and that sometimes the only way to find home is by running away.
Learn more about Ariella and the Society of S here.
Susan Hubbard is an award-winning writer and teacher. Her books have won national prizes and her short stories have appeared in such journals as TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, and The Mississippi Review. She has received teaching awards from Syracuse University, Cornell University, the University of Central Florida, and the South Atlantic Adminstrators of Departments of English, and she has been a guest at Yaddo, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Djerassi Resident Artists' Project, and Cill Rialaig. Hubbard has given fiction readings and led writing workshops at more than seventy universities and arts programs in the United States and the United Kingdom.
A former President of Associated Writing Programs, Hubbard currently is Professor of English at the University of Central Florida. She works individually with writers through Split Rock Mentoring, an online writing service sponsored by the University of Minnesota.
