Indie Reads Aloud: P.A. White and "Until I Come Back For You"

Diana Kathryn
Jul 16
2 min read

Indie Reads Aloud Radio

Episode #228

Until I Come Back For You

Written by P.A. White

Trisha is a typical eight-year-old. The youngest of five, she has a pony, a BFF, sticky fingers, and a big secret. After she does her homework and chores, she sneaks off to visit a dead body in the woods.

Right where she left it.

UNTIL I COME BACK FOR YOU invites you to wallow in the comforting nostalgia of the 1970s, a simpler time when there were only three TV channels, two colas, and one phone in the house. Smell the honeysuckle of lazy summer days; listen to sisters sharing whispers in bunk beds before drifting to sleep. Just when you get comfortable, you’ll find yourself stranded in a tree, dragged across a field, held down on a cold examination table. Taste the blood in your mouth from a lost tooth. Feel the breath of a predator on your neck. Hear the death rattle of a lost soul.

Follow one family’s history woven into the tattered fabric of the Midwest and witness one girl tear at the seams of girlhood, suspended between the generations of women who reinvented womanhood.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: P.A. White was born and raised in rural Michigan and still points to her hand to show you where she's from. She left the mitten to join the US Army - but don't ask what she did or she'll have to kill you. She is a recovering policy wonk, having spent the last twenty-five years as a professional tree hugger in Washington DC.

Today she is blissfully retired, living in a one-room schoolhouse built in the 1800s with a fat cat named Kevin. Now that she's checked writing "The Great American Novel" off her bucket list, she spends her days stalking '80s bands she missed when she was a kid.

And if she tells you she's an author, don't believe her. She's lying. She's just a chick who had a story in her head and had to get it out.