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Erica Boardman Thomas grew up in the Richmond, Virginia area and has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Virginia Commonwealth University. She currently lives with her husband in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina where she holds a media director position with a prominent advertising agency.

"Knowing Things"

A Novel by Erica Boardman Thomas

Synopsis: Lexi Rittenbach is a precocious only child living in Mulberry, Ohio. "It was just me and Momma. For all of my almost six years, it had always been just me and Momma. My father, Momma told me, died in child birth. It wasn't until years later that I understood she meant this metaphorically." Lexi and her mother share a gift; when they touch an object they are able to see and know things from the past and the future. It is a gift that Lexi is just discovering and one that tortures her mother, causing her to frequently move them from town to town to escape the "knowing."

Lexi, tells her story, beginning, at the age of six, with yet another move. This time the escape takes them to the home of her mother's estranged sister in the town of Meadowville, Virginia. When her mother disappears Lexi faces a whole new world that includes a large extended family, new friends and enemies from her first experience attending school, and the emptiness of life without her mother. As she grows more comfortable with her new life, she is able to understand and control her gift with the help of her best friend, Bainey, and her new and wonderful Italian grandmother.

By the time she attends college back in the town of Mulberry she has learned that, of course, her father had not died in childbirth and that she now has two younger twin brothers. Determined to understand who she really is, she begins to use her gift to connect clues and find the secrets of her mother's past, hoping to uncover the identity of unknown fathers and reconnect with her missing mother.

Her journey concludes with a revelation that connects both towns and proves to her what a gift it is to have close friends and a strong family bond

An great read!

Knowing Things A Novel by Erica Boardman Thomas Synopsis: Lexi Rittenbach is a precocious only child living in Mulberry, Ohio. "It was just me and Momma. For all of my almost six years, it had always been just me and Momma. My father, Momma told me, died in child birth. It wasn't until years later that I understood she meant this metaphorically." Lexi and her mother share a gift; when they touch an object they are able to see and know things from the past and the future. It is a gift that Lexi is just discovering and one that tortures her mother, causing her to frequently move them from town to town to escape the "knowing."

Lexi, tells her story, beginning, at the age of six, with yet another move. This time the escape takes them to the home of her mother's estranged sister in the town of Meadowville, Virginia. When her mother disappears Lexi faces a whole new world that includes a large extended family, new friends and enemies from her first experience attending school, and the emptiness of life without her mother. As she grows more comfortable with her new life, she is able to understand and control her gift with the help of her best friend, Bainey, and her new and wonderful Italian grandmother.

By the time she attends college back in the town of Mulberry she has learned that, of course, her father had not died in childbirth and that she now has two younger twin brothers. Determined to understand who she really is, she begins to use her gift to connect clues and find the secrets of her mother's past, hoping to uncover the identity of unknown fathers and reconnect with her missing mother.

Her journey concludes with a revelation that connects both towns and proves to her what a gift it is to have close friends and a strong family bond.

Brithm (talk) 19:45, 26 November 2008 (UTC)