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WORK TITLE: The Runaways
WORK NOTES:
PSEUDONYM(S): Cobb, Sonya
BIRTHDATE:
WEBSITE: https://www.sonyaterjanian.com/
CITY:
STATE: NY
COUNTRY: United States
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RESEARCHER NOTES:
CANCELLED: ALREADY IN CA AS SONYA COBB
LC control no.: no2014106800
LCCN Permalink: https://lccn.loc.gov/no2014106800
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670 __ |a Cobb, Sonya. The objects of her affection, c2014: |b title page (Sonya Cobb) page 341 (About the author. Sonya Cobb is an author and advertising copywriter. She lives in Westchester County, New York)
670 __ |a The runaways, 2018: |b ECIP t.p. (Sonya Terjanian) data view (Sonya Terjanian is an author and advertising copywriter. Her first novel, The Objects of Her Affection, was written under the name Sonya Cobb. She lives in Westchester County, New York, with her two children and her husband, a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
670 __ |a Lohud website, viewed October 12, 2017 |b (Cobb’s husband, Pierre Terjanian, is a museum curator, first at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and currently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan) |u http://www.lohud.com/story/entertainment/arts/2014/08/29/dobbs-ferry-author-sonya-cobb-debut-novel-objects-affection/14759929/
PERSONAL
Original name Sonya Cobb; married Pierre Terjanian (a museum curator); children: two.
EDUCATION:Universitat de Barcelona, diploma of Hispanic studies, 1988; Salem College, B.A., 1991.
ADDRESS
CAREER
Long Haymes Carr LINTAS, Winston-Salem, NC, junior copywriter, 1989-93; Ketchum Communications, Philadelphia, PA, copywriter, 1993-94; Earle Palmer Brown Advertising, worked as writer, associate creative director, and vice president in Philadelphia, then New York City, between 1994 and 1999; Lot 21 Interactive Advertising, San Francisco, CA, group creative director, 2000-01; freelance copywriter, 2001–. Dobbs Ferry Historic District, chair of district task force; Hudson River School of Music, member of board of directors.
MEMBER:Dobbs Ferry Garden Club.
WRITINGS
SIDELIGHTS
BIOCRIT
PERIODICALS
Publishers Weekly, February 26, 2018, review of The Runaways, p. 59.
ONLINE
A Bookish Affair, http://abookishaffair.blogspot.com/ (April 4, 2018), review of The Runaways.
Clues and Reviews, https://cluesandreviews.wordpress.com/ (April 4, 2018), review of The Runaways.
Sonya Terjanian website, https://www.sonyaterjanian.com (June 16, 2018).
Sonya Terjanian lives and writes in New York’s lower Hudson Valley. Her first novel, The Objects of Her Affection, was selected as a Top Ten Crime Fiction Debut by Booklist. Her second novel, The Runaways, was described by Publishers Weekly as an “entertaining and atmospheric exploration of class, choice…and hope.”
I'm a freelance copywriter with more than twenty years of advertising and marketing experience. See my portfolio at sonyaterjanian.com. I've also published two novels: The Runaways by Sonya Terjanian and The Objects of Her Affection by Sonya Cobb.
Experience
Self-employed
Freelance copywriter
Dates Employed 2001–Present Employment Duration
Location Greater New York City Area
Lot21 Interactive Advertising
Group Creative Director
Dates Employed 2000 – 2001 Employment Duration 1
Location San Francisco, CA
Earle Palmer Brown Advertising
Writer, Associate Creative Director, Vice President
Dates Employed 1994 – 1999 Employment Duration 5
Location Philadelphia, PA and New York, NY
Ketchum Communications
Copywriter Company Name Ketchum Communications
Dates Employed 1993 – 1994 Employment Duration 1
Location Philadelphia, PA
Long Haymes Carr LINTAS
Junior Copywriter
Dates Employed 1989 – 1993 Employment Duration 4
Location Winston-Salem, NC
Education
Salem College
Degree Name BA
Field Of Study English, Spanish
Dates attended or expected graduation 1988 – 1991
Universitat de Barcelona
Degree Name Diploma of Hispanic Studies
Field Of Study Hispanic Studies
Dates attended or expected graduation 1987 – 1988
Volunteer Experience
Hudson River School of Music
Board of Directors
Dobbs Ferry Historic District Task Force
Chair
Dobbs Ferry Garden Club
Programming Chair
The Runaways
Publishers Weekly.
265.9 (Feb. 26, 2018): p59.
COPYRIGHT 2018 PWxyz, LLC
http://www.publishersweekly.com/
Full Text:
The Runaways
SonyaTerjanian. Sourcebooks Landmark, $15.99 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-4926-0401-3
A remote home in the frigid wilderness is the setting of the insightful latest from Terjanian (The Objects of Her Affection). Teen Ivy, who dreams
of being a Montana smoke jumper, steals a car to get away from the dead-end town of Good Hope, N.Y., her sick mother, and the black hole of
grinding poverty that clouds her future. After wrecking the car spectacularly, she hides out in a remote house built of sleek glass in the woods
between the Poconos and the Catskills. Mary Ellen is running away too, temporarily. As marketing v-p of a powerful pharmaceutical company,
she's long put aside her dreams of being an artist, but when she takes a photography class, her teacher, seeing her potential, offers her the use of
her vacation home (where there is no landline or cell service). She takes her up on it, and she's shocked to find Ivy there. Prickly Ivy and earnest
Mary Ellen slip on different personas, their drama playing out against a cold, stark, and unforgiving setting that highlights the vast distance
between them and building toward a terrible event that will test them both. No easy answers are offered, but Terjanian's entertaining and
atmospheric exploration of class, choice (or lack of), and hope will undoubtedly speak to readers. (Apr.)
Source Citation (MLA 8th
Edition)
"The Runaways." Publishers Weekly, 26 Feb. 2018, p. 59. General OneFile, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A530637391/ITOF?
u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=18d0917f. Accessed 4 June 2018.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A530637391
Review: The Runaways by Sonya Terjanian
Title: The Runaways
Author: Sonya Terjanian
Format: Ebook
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Publish Date: April 3, 2018 (Yesterday!)
Source: Publisher
What's the Story?:
From Goodreads.com: "Ivy is on the run. She is finally ready to trade in a dead-end future of college debt and family obligations for the thrill of a fresh start. But when she finds herself in an isolated cabin in the Poconos, she realizes that starting over is more difficult than she thought.
Especially when a stranger stumbles into her hiding place.
Mary Ellen is attempting to reinvent herself. Dissatisfied with her career and family life, Mary Ellen is finally pursuing art, something she has put aside for years. So, when she arrives at a cabin in the woods for an artist's retreat and finds a teenage girl instead, she realizes this is her chance to start new."
My Two Cents:
"The Runaways" is the story of Ivy, a teenaged girl who is running away from her problems, which include a sick mother and wanting something more from her small life. Mary Ellen who is also running away from her life. She has a husband who is drifting through life with little purpose and twin daughters who will soon leave them empty nesters. Mary Ellen is trying to figure out what life looks like after that happens. These two characters will be thrown together with surprising results.
It took awhile for me to get into this book. It has a very slow start with a lot of set up for who both of our main characters are, especially Mary Ellen. The book goes a lot into Mary Ellen and her newfound love for actually practicing art. I wished that the introduction would have been streamlined a little more and I wish that we had gotten to see both of the characters together more quickly. The main characters don't meet until almost a half of the book is over!
That being said, once we finally get to the characters meeting and interacting with each other, the book really picks up. It becomes a reflection of what happens when you have the opportunity to meet kind people and how life has a certain way of giving us people in our time of need. Once you can finally see where the story is going, I came to like and understand the characters a little bit better!
Book Review: The Runaways (Sonya Terjanian) @Sourcebooks @TerjanianSonya
PUBLISHED ON April 4, 2018
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Every so often, I come across a book that I become completely engrossed in. The prose is easy, the characters are intriguing and I find myself reading late into the night so I can figure out that the story. That is exactly what happened to me when I opened The Runaways, the sophomore novel by Sonya Terjanian.
Honestly, I wasn’t sure what to expect when I opened up The Runaways and the synopsis wasn’t exactly clear. I knew it would involve a teenage runaway, trying to break free from what she believes will be a dull future and I knew she would meet a woman who is trying to escape from her mundane life. Was it going to read like contemporary drama? Women’s fiction? Suspense? These were the types of thoughts running through my head as I sat down to flip open the first page.
What I found, as I continued my reading, was that this novel was a little bit of everything: a dark, cold landscape, deeply flawed characters that collide and secrets flow throughout the plot. It was sort of like Scandinavian Fiction meets Southern Gothic Fiction meets a psychological character study. Needless to say, Terjanian had me hook, line and sinker.
I really appreciated how she chose to roll out the story and how she focused on details. I loved the descriptions of the landscape. For the most part, the novel takes place at a summer cottage during a snowstorm. Terjanian did a brilliant job at making the reader truly FEEL the cold. Even I found myself snuggling deeper into the couch and pulling my blanket up a bit higher. Told through alternating chapters between teenage runaway, Ivy, and professional, Mary Ellen, they each are on their own path until their stories collide and they find themselves living together in the woods biting off way more than they can chew.
Something about this one gave me a creepy, southern Gothic vibe. I cannot really put my finger on WHY it gave me this vibe; surely, it was not the landscape I don’t know if it had something to with the encounters between two strangers who are keeping secrets from each other. It sort of reminded me of A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O’Conner (which happens to be one of my favourite short stories). I don’t believe it was the author’s intention to be “creepy” but the slow, meticulous release of the plot had me feeling like something was going to take a turn for the worst. Maybe it’s because I read so many thrillers?
There were a few things that bothered me throughout the story. For one, I found myself interested in one side of the plot. I really was drawn to the chapters surrounding Ivy but didn’t find myself caring as much about Mary Ellen. I also think that anyone going into this story expecting huge twists and turns will find themselves disappointed. The story is a bit of a slow burn. Finally, the ending left much to be desired for me. When I finished the last page, I said to myself “THAT’S IT??!!” I really wanted some resolutions.
Regardless of my small complaints, I did end up enjoying this story as a whole and would absolutely read more by this author. So, if you enjoy a character study, add this one to your list!
THANKS TO THE AUTHOR, NETGALLEY AND THE PUBLISHER FOR A DIGITAL COPY OF THIS NOVEL; IT WAS MY PLEASURE TO PROVIDE AN HONEST REVIEW.