Julie Chibbaro is the award-winning author of three novels: Into the Dangerous World (Viking, 2015), Deadly (Simon & Schuster 2011), and Redemption (Simon & Schuster 2004).
Julie is currently at work on a memoir about her search for home entitled PLUMB: How an Abandoned House Saved My Family. Growing up with a violent father, an abusive stepmother, and a mentally ill mother, Julie has no framework for the meaning of home. When she and her husband purchase a century-old abandoned foreclosure intending to create a solid foundation for their troubled daughter, she realizes she doesn’t know what it means to rebuild a broken home. Her deep wounds always prevented her from trusting stability. Her body betrays her—chronic pain, and the legacy of the breast cancer that took her mother and sister. Julie discovers the abandoned house has a mysterious past that mirrors her own difficult secrets. She begins to understand how rehabbing the old home means healing her own heart before she can heal her daughter’s. The work becomes a journey of self-discovery, about meeting ancestors, reversing the effects of trauma, and earning the wisdom to mend another. Read more about Julie at the About tab.
Julie is currently at work on a memoir about her search for home entitled PLUMB: How an Abandoned House Saved My Family. Growing up with a violent father, an abusive stepmother, and a mentally ill mother, Julie has no framework for the meaning of home. When she and her husband purchase a century-old abandoned foreclosure intending to create a solid foundation for their troubled daughter, she realizes she doesn’t know what it means to rebuild a broken home. Her deep wounds always prevented her from trusting stability. Her body betrays her—chronic pain, and the legacy of the breast cancer that took her mother and sister. Julie discovers the abandoned house has a mysterious past that mirrors her own difficult secrets. She begins to understand how rehabbing the old home means healing her own heart before she can heal her daughter’s. The work becomes a journey of self-discovery, about meeting ancestors, reversing the effects of trauma, and earning the wisdom to mend another. Read more about Julie at the About tab.
Published Books
Deadly
Join the search for Typhoid Mary in this early twentieth-century CSI.
Prudence doesn’t belong in Mrs. Browning’s esteemed School for Girls. She wants to know how the human body works—and why it fails. When she gets a job in a laboratory, she's swept into an investigation of a mysterious fever. Prudence explores every potential cause of the disease to no avail—until the volatile Mary Mallon emerges. Dubbed “Typhoid Mary” by the press, Mary is an Irish immigrant who has worked as a cook in every home the fever has ravaged. But she’s never been sick a day in her life. Is the accusation against her an act of discrimination? Or is she the first clue in solving one of the greatest medical mysteries of the twentieth century?
Into the Dangerous World
"I'm an artist"
But Ror doesn’t really know what that means. She struggles to understand herself, but she knows she loves to draw. Her father's suicide haunts her and drives her to draw. After falling for a guy in her art class, Ror joins Trey's crew, and finds a new way to express herself, through graffiti. She goes on a journey to find herself in dangerous world around her.
Redemption
"I run, faster through the woodland, escaping the murderous men who chase behind me with vicious, barking dogs."
Lily's father was kidnapped and taken to the New World a year ago. She'd lost hope until recently, when she and her mother were taken on the very same trip to the New World. In the chaos of a new environment, Lily loses her mother but stumbles upon her father: he has joined a Native tribe. She must find her mother to reunite them all and find redemption for her family and herself.