A Memory of Fictions (or) Just Tiddy-Boom is a modern, jazzy take on the bildungsroman that uses everything from personal memoir, a fugue-like structure, poetry, images, lyrics, and diaries to paint a vivid, eloquent portrait of gay, black, Jessie Vincent Grandier and the striving African American middle class that spawned him in the late 1950s.
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1921: A German farmer finds twin baby girls abandoned in his barn. He and his barren wife are ecstatic, and raise the newborns as their own. 1939: WWII plunges Europe into chaos and terror. One night, a desperate Jewish woman fleeing the Nazis comes to the farm... It’s the girls’ birth mother! Soon secrets held for 20 years are revealed, altering everyone’s lives forever.
Amidst the chaos of the American Revolution, Phoebe Tredwell uncovers a plot that threatens to destroy everything the Patriots are fighting for. Armed with her wit and aided by a secret network of remarkable women, she must navigate a labyrinth of danger and deception, where the price of failure is not just defeat, but death.
In 1950s America, Dr. Jack Conley provides covert abortions to honor a life lost to a botched procedure. But as societal backlash, black-market dangers, and fractured friendships close in, a fiery advocate forces Jack to confront his beliefs. How far will he go to do what’s right? A gripping historical medical drama on America’s fiercest divide.
