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Lisa Roe

Biography

Lisa Roe

Lisa Roe graduated from the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and spent many years as an advertising creative director and copywriter in New York City before she accepted the tougher job of stay-at-home mom and turned to writing fiction --- mostly to entertain her kids, but then to tell her own stories. A classic first born, reluctant empty nester, and Dr. Doolittle wannabe, Lisa lives in New Jersey with her husband, David and three incorrigible dogs. BIG & LILY is her second novel.

Lisa Roe

Books by Lisa Roe

Big & Lily
by Lisa Roe - Fiction, Women's Fiction

For her entire life, Bridget “Big” Ackerman Petty has struggled to hold everything together --- her kids, her husband, her demanding mother --- thinking everything is so effortless and easy for her sister, Lily. But when Lily discovers her husband’s been cheating, her “perfect” life implodes. Devastated and overwhelmed, she decides to run as far away as possible: to Alaska to lose herself on a hardcore survival trek --- and she’s dragged her reluctant sister Big along. As the sisters navigate freezing rivers, unmarked trails, and more than one near-death experience, they’re forced to face everything they’ve spent decades avoiding: resentment, regret, envy, and the terrifying possibility that the other one’s life might not be as easy as it looks.