Melanie Pappadis Faranello

MANUSCRIPTS__________________________________________________________________________________________________

Novels:

PAPER HOUSES (Novel-Literary Fiction/88,000 words): A dual-timelines novel set in 1984 and 2001 Chicago, intertwining a reclusive groundskeeper and a  twelve-year-old girl as their search  for missing loved ones intersect in surprising ways. A psychological exploration of mistaken identity, intimacy and the longing for connection.

IN OTHER KINDS OF WEATHER (Novel-Literary Fiction/90,000 words): A contemporary family drama about a recently laid-off family man veers off course to save his family and a newly-single marriage counselor struggles to recreate herself while trouble threatens their pristine town.  Questioning how well we know what is going on behind our neighbors' doors. 

THE WANT (Novel-Literary Fiction/in-progress '25)

Short Story Collection:

EVERYBODY NEEDS SOMETHING (Story Collection 58,000 words):  A collection of stories exploring our human need for connection and the ways in which we struggle to attain it.

Non-Fiction:

A RABBLE, A FLIGHT, A WING: Notes on Grief and Belonging (CNF/26,000 words):  A hybrid collection of creative non-fiction centering on various forms of loss and questions of belonging. 

POETRY ON THE STREETS : A coffee table style collection of photographs and typewriter poetry about human emotions spontaneously written by everyday people on the street over three years