Maddie Dawson is the author of eleven novels about love, crazy families, secrets, parenthood, and — yes, they have happy endings and some laughs as well as tears. (Just like life.) Her newest novel, Snap Out of It, released on Jan. 3, 2023.
Also by Maddie Dawson: The Magic of Found Objects, A Happy Catastrophe, Matchmaking for Beginners, The Survivor's Guide to Family Happiness, The Opposite of Maybe, The Stuff That Never Happened, Kissing Games of the World and A Piece of Normal.
Her first novel, What Comes After Crazy, was written under the name Sandi Kahn Shelton.
My grandmother wasn’t like other people’s grandmothers. Not only did she live in a house perched on stilts over a lake in northern Florida — where she calmly contended with alligators, water moccasins, and violent thunderstorms daily — but she also knew how to wish warts away. Yep. Warts. She…