Sophia’s Return: Uncovering My Mother’s Past

-Broad target market: This book will appeal to a mature audience, readers of non-fiction (specifically, memoir), Greek Americans, and bicultural and middle-/retirement-aged readers.

-Crossing cultures: The author lives in the Pacific Northwest but grew up in Greece. She bridges the two cultures in her narrative, offering an authentic glimpse into Greek society for English-speaking readers.

-Addresses important issues: The protagonist has a lot of unanswered questions about her parents in an era when divorce was unheard of; her story will resonate with the thousands of adult children who found themselves in a similar position when their parents divorced.

-Author has an established audience: Kouidou-Giles’s 2019 memoir,

/Return to Thessaloniki, sold well in Greece, and her story Life on Egypt Street, based on a chapter of the memoir, placed 9th in the Fourth International short story competition and was included in The Time Collection anthology (Eye Land Press, Athens, Greece, 2014).