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Title: Litany for a Broken World
Author: LJ Cohen
A young girl's disastrous first foray through the multiverse cleaves her from her family and abandons her in a homeless encampment, adrift in a world and a body not her own.
A doctor struggling with grief volunteers for the annual Boston homeless census and is confronted by the impossible and her deeply buried childhood trauma.
A lonely, disaffected seer rejected by those he seeks to help is drawn from his home by a desperate call across the world walls.
When the three strangers, each broken in some way, are drawn together in a conflict between those with the ability to travel the multiverse and the organization seeking to exploit them, they must risk everything that matters to heal the fractured places in themselves and throughout reality.
First in the Entangled Realities trilogy, Litany for a Broken World is an adult reworking of The Wizard of Oz that takes place in the very real world of a Boston homeless encampment and releases Feb. 10, 2025. eBook pre-orders are live now at www.ljcohen.net/litany.html.
Praise for the novels of LJ Cohen:
“Cohen has real talent with character development and interaction, and prickly, defensive Ro is a sympathetic and interesting heroine.”
"Parallax is an adrenaline rush, ripping you across the galaxy at the speed of light. LJ Cohen's seemingly effortless narrative about a galaxy drowning in corruption and rebellion features a group of teens struggling to protect not only themselves but those they love. It will take hold of you at page one and never let go.”
— K. B. Wagers, author of Behind the Throne, The Indranan War Book 1
The writing process:
LJ Cohen found the path to creating Litany for a Broken World, her ninth novel in print, helped her grow as an author and develop new skills for this ambitious work.
"Some stories come pouring out onto the page in a rush. Others need to be coaxed out from under the bed word by word,” she says. “Litany for a Broken World was the latter. I was in New York at a writing retreat with Broad member Randee Dawn six years ago when this book began.”
Cohen took six years to draft and revise this story.
“Along the way, I wrote and discarded about a novel's worth of words and spent far too much time mired in self-doubt. But with the support of my writing community and especially Broad Universe members, I was able to keep going.”
Her work on the second story in this series is underway. Learn more at www.ljcohen.net.
