When she meets Farouk Karam, an ambitious young policeman, so insistent on their love that he elicits help from a tea-brewing obeah woman, the rewards and risks in Marcia’s life amplify forever. When the story opens you meet, Marcia Garcia, a sixteen year old seamstress who is raising two boys alone. ‘Til the Well Runs Dry’ is a tale about family, love and sacrifice. NAW- Tell us about your book, ‘Til the Well Runs Dry.’ What is it about? How did you get the idea for the book?
In 2007, she became a stay-at-home of my two girls and began writing ‘Til the Well Runs Dry, in 2009. She worked as a corporate lawyer at SkaddenArps (NY) and Shaw Pittman (D.C.) before becoming counsel at Constellation Energy Group. from the University of Michigan Law School. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in English literature with a minor in African-American Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. For readers who cherish the previously untold stories of women’s lives, here is a story of grit and imperfection and love that has not been told before.Lauren Francis Sharma was born in New York City to Trinidadian immigrants and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. ‘Til the Well Runs Dry tells the twinned stories of a spirited woman’s love for one man and her bottomless devotion to her children. On an island rich with laughter, Calypso, Carnival, cricket, beaches and salty air, sweet fruits and spicy stews, the novel follows Marcia and Farouk from their amusing and passionate courtship through personal and historical events that threaten Marcia’s secret, entangle the couple and their children in a scandal, and endanger the future for all of them.
When she meets Farouk Karam, an ambitious young policeman (so taken with Marcia that he elicits the help of a tea-brewing obeah woman to guarantee her ardor), the risks and rewards in Marcia’s life amplify forever. Lauren Francis-Sharma’s ‘Til the Well Runs Dry opens in a seaside village in the north of Trinidad where young Marcia Garcia, a gifted and smart-mouthed 16-year-old seamstress, lives alone, raising two small boys and guarding a family secret.
Short-Listed for William Saroyan International Prize for Writing Black Caucus of the American Library Association 2015 Honor for Fiction‘
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