Jacqueline Sheehan, Ph.D., is a fiction writer and essayist. She is also a psychologist. She is a New Englander through and through, but spent twenty years living in the western states of Oregon, California, and New Mexico doing a variety of things, including house painting, freelance photography, newspaper writing, clerking in a health food store and directing a traveling troupe of high school puppeteers. She is the acclaimed author of the novels THE COMET'S TALE, A NOVEL ABOUT SOJOURNER TRUTH; LOST & FOUND; NOW & THEN; and PICTURE THIS. She has also published travel articles, short stories, and numerous essays and radio pieces. She lives near Northampton in central Massachusetts.

Books by Jacqueline Sheehan

The Center of the World

by Jacqueline Sheehan - Family Life, Fiction, Literary, Literary Fiction

Kate Malloy protected her daughter for more than a dozen years, shielding her from a terrible truth. Sofia, a fifteen-year-old soccer star living in New England, believes she was born in Mexico and legally adopted by Kate. But a posthumous letter from her stepfather tells Sofia a different story --- one of civil unrest and bloodshed, death-defying heroism and child-smuggling, harrowing sacrifice and desperate decisions.