A Modern, Bourgeois, Addictive, Somewhat Profound Holiday Romance in 10 Vignettes
Jane Austen's characters mingle... in 21st century Atlanta.
Darcy and Elizabeth attend a tailgate. Emma runs a matchmaking business. Isabella Thorpe regrets her choices. George Wickham does not.
250 years after Jane Austen's birth, her characters continue to appear on page, stage, and screen - because she saw through our brokenness and had hope in the promised happy ending. Deus ex libris.
Editorial Reviews
"Kate Susong's A Truth Occasionally Acknowledged is a pure delight. Witty, humorous, and profound, Susong captures the charm and detail of Austen's characters as they converge in the elite echelons of Atlanta during the present-day holiday season."
- Elizabeth Musser, bestselling author of The Swan House and many others
"With deft humor and surprising tenderness, Kate Susong evokes all that makes Jane Austen timeless: her revelation of human weakness without despair and human longing without cynicism. Susong's contemporary imagining is full of hope, honesty, and grace: a promise that even in our failures, love and mercy still have the final word."
- Karen Wright Marsh, Executive Director of Theological Horizons and author of Wake Up to Wonder
Peer Reviews on Substack
"Forgiveness, reconciliation, and the redeeming of broken things. A beautiful Christmas story..."
- Charlie Lehardy
"What a gift this story was!"
- Tonya B
"...perfect voicing of modern day Jane Austen characters! Delightful...!"
- Sharon Varnum
"What a hoot!!"
- Kateness
About the Author
Kate Susong studied English literature and theater at Princeton, exploring the history of storytelling and performing literature on stage. She moved to New York City where she acted with the Prospect Theater Company and earned a graduate degree in English and comparative literature from Columbia. After moving home to Atlanta, she produced the opera Little Women, began writing and performing for local schools, and wrote for the children's television show Wondermore, in which she also acted. She has written a novel based on Jane Eyre and now writes monthly essays and stories on her Substack, katesusong.com. She and her husband Kirk attend Christchurch Presbyterian in Atlanta and have two children who are their delight.
About Reverted Press
"Reverted" means to return to a previous state. It comes from the Latin revertere. In his 4th century Latin translation of the Bible, Jerome used revertere dozens of times - it's a common concept, after all - but never more powerfully than when exhorting us to "return to God."
Returning to God implies that we started with him in the first place - and, in fact, that's what the whole Bible is about: a return to peace, wholeness, and relationship with God. We had it in Eden; we lost it when we preferred our own way; and even though we hate our suffering and brokenness - we still want our own way. We want to have our poison and eat it, too.
But our Creator loves us - so he ate the poison and gave us cake. Put another way, he drank the cup of wrath so we could drink the cup of blessing. He reversed the inevitability of Death by dying and returning to Life.
That reversal is the true story that is echoed in all happy endings printed by Reverted Press.
I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud
and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you.
Isaiah 44:22
