Mandy McCann

EXTRAORDINARY FRIEDRICH BRAINS is a dual POV upmarket novel that follows the intertwined lives of Evelyn Parker, a work-addicted psychiatrist, and her daughter, Rosa Friedrich, who inherited parapsychological abilities from her father.

This novel is for readers who enjoy the angst Amazing Grace Adams by Fran Littlewood with the speculative elements of Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino and This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub.

Evelyn never planned to be a mother. But after a short fling with the only good man she’s ever known, she finds herself raising their daughter with his mother.

Rosa has no clue what she wants for her life after high school, only that she does not want to be anything like her mother.

What Rosa doesn’t know is that her mother has devoted her career to the study of parapsychology on the off chance that her grandmother was right and Rosa did inherit extraordinary abilities from her father.

When Rosa realizes she can leave her body and travel through space and time, she faces the question—are you willing to be extraordinary if it means losing yourself?