Bookstagram Tour Spotlight: A Dream Life: A Memoir by Wendy Swift
We’re thrilled to be partnering with Wendy Swift and Vine Leaves Press for the upcoming Bookstagram Tour for A Dream Life: A Memoir.
This powerful memoir explores the painful unravelling of a life built on belief, appearances and trust, while offering an honest and deeply human story of resilience, motherhood, self-discovery and renewal.
About the Book
Title: A Dream Life: A Memoir
Author: Wendy Swift
Genre: Memoir
Pages: 294
Publisher: Vine Leaves Press
Bookstagram Tour: 13th to 19th May
Blurb
When Wendy Swift receives a letter demanding nearly two million dollars in restitution from her attorney husband, her world begins to unravel. The suburban life she believed in, as a stay-at-home mother with a loving husband and three daughters, is suddenly exposed as an illusion.
A Dream Life follows Swift’s search for validation through marriage, motherhood, and social status, and the painful unravelling that follows.
After her husband’s incarceration in the 1990s, Swift is left to support her three young daughters alone, guiding them through loss, shame, and uncertainty. Her journey is far from easy, marked by setbacks as well as strength, reflection, and growth, while also revealing the dangers of blind materialism.
This powerful memoir sheds light on the complex realities families face when confronted with addiction, mental illness, and incarceration. Swift combines unflinching honesty with moments of wry self-awareness, offering a compelling exploration of denial, resilience, and ultimately, self-discovery.
A Dream Life is a reminder that anyone can fall into false beliefs, but when the truth is faced, however painful, it can lead to renewal, strength, and a reclaimed sense of self.
About the Author
Wendy Swift is the author of the memoir A Dream Life, as well as essays published in HuffPost, Memoir Magazine, Grub Street Literary Magazine, Barely South Review, Yellow Arrow Journal, Brevity Blog, and Lonesome Press.
In 2006, Swift earned the Press Club of Long Island Award for her essay “Ritter’s Pond,” and in 2022, she earned Honorable Mention from the Connecticut Press Club for “The Sentencing.”
Swift is also a mentor with We Are Not Numbers, a writing platform for Palestinian writers, and serves as a fiction reader for Mud Season Review. She lives in Connecticut and, when she is not writing or thinking about writing, she is walking wooded trails with her hound, Lulu.
Tour Schedule
13th May
@hollydolly.reads
@rolltide.reads
@debesbooknookwit
14th May
@bookishandcaffeinatedintx
@traceyturnspages
15th May
@xo_courtneymarie_ox
@emma_bookaholic
16th May
@kaitlynvreads
@theruffsarereading
17th May
@caits_reading_nook
@tiffanystales
18th May
@miss80sbooks
@bgaugustine
@mrs.brasingtonreads
19th May
@Bookstoldbycourtney
@bookgrlobsessed
Please do follow and support Wendy Swift over on Instagram at @WendyJSwiftAuthor, and keep an eye on the tour posts from our wonderful hosts.
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