What if you could go back to a moment in time and change one crucial thing? How would your life be changed? In what ways would it be the same?

It’s 1982, and Lisa is twenty-four years old, a waitress, an aspiring singer-songwriter, and girlfriend to a famous Latin musician. That year, she makes a decision, almost without thinking about it.

But what if her decision had been a different one?

In the new 1982, Lisa chooses differently. Her career takes another direction. She becomes a mother. She loves differently, yet some things remain the same.

Alternating between two very different possibilities, THE ORIGINAL 1982 is a novel about how the choices we make affect the people we become-and about how the people we are affect the choices we make.

Bio: Lori Carson is a singer/songwriter whose albums include: Shelter, Where it Goes, Everything I Touch Runs Wild and Another Year. A former member of the seminal band The Golden Palominos, she has contributed to the soundtracks of Bernardo Bertolucci’s Stealing Beauty, Kathryn Bigelow’s Strange Days, Keith Gordon’s Waking the Dead, and others. THE ORIGINAL 1982 is her first novel.