Sigrid's Books

Finding Lisa Published by Total Recall Press in Texas Finding Lisa is Sigrid's first novel. Tara Richards is approaching forty. The thought fills her with dread. She is unhappy with her job as a rehabilitation nurse and disenchanted with her marriage, but lacks the courage to make a significant life change. When her best friend, Lisa, disappears, Tara's life is thrown into turmoil. Has Lisa jeopardized her sobriety by going on a drinking binge, or has she been harmed by her partner who has a history of battering? Lisa is her rock, her confidant, her reality check. Tara can't live without her. Despite the near paralysis of bad hair days, Tara joins a massive search to look for her friend in conjunction with the police, her colorful women's collective, and a twenty-four-year-old man whom Tara finds particularly captivating.   Finding Lisa explores diverse themes such as missing women, domestic violence, female friendships, addiction, and midlife crisis. With...

Sigrid Macdonald has always been a voracious reader, and now she reads fifty or sixty books a year for pleasure; in third grade, she took out books from the elementary school library to read for fun. Her favorite book was called The Trouble with Jenny's Ear. The "trouble" was that Jenny could hear people's thoughts! Sigrid liked the book so much that she wrote to the author, who responded to her within several months. She was thrilled and began to imagine herself writing novels. In high school, Sigrid wrote an essay on the Icelandic sagas, which was published in Reykjav í k. In her twenties, she was active in politics and began to write Letters to the Editor of the local paper, which had a wide circulation, along with op-ed pieces. Sigrid has written two nonfiction books, which she self-published: Getting Hip: Recovery from a Total Hip Replacement and How to Be Your Own Editor. She also wrote two erotic short stories under the pseudonym Tiffanie Good, The Pi...