Tessa's Heart: A Texas Story by Jackie Lewis

Tessa's Heart: A Texas Story

Book/Manuscript · Drama · 319 pages

Hilarious and heartbreaking, Tessa's Heart: A Texas Story; a coming of age story about a young girl. It's 1952, in Yoakum, Texas, Tessa Carter, a feisty, back-taking nine-year-old, is torn between her deeply religious but foul-mouthed grandmother and her bed-hopping mother and she talks to the ghosts.

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Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition 2024

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Jackie Lewis

Santa Monica, CA

Tessa’s Heart: A Texas Story is Jackie Lewis’ debut novel. It received an honorable mention from the Eric Hoffer Award. She attended UCLA, receiving an M.F.A. in Screenwriting. She's had three plays produced in Los Angeles: Birds of a Feather Stuck Together, Two Nowhere Men, and Teetering on the Edge. Currently in Santa Monica, she studies wi...

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When Tessas discovers a skeleton in the back yard, the families dark secret is revealed. The themes I'm exploring are a disturbed girl, a dysfunctional family, a girl's questions about sex. Indie Reader's Discovery Awards 2024 declared me a winner In WOMEN'S ISSUES .