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Owen’s first novel, The Broken Violin, is about music and the college transition. It fosters discussions on community and belonging, mental health, and creativity.
As Shel Henka begins her freshman year of college studying film, she’s ghosted by her first intimate boyfriend, Jeremy. Alienating herself from her parents and friends, she eventually tries to break free of it all in an epic ocean swim. It takes an unlikely music class with a professor who is at his own turning point to begin to open her up again, and she enters a student short film contest hoping she can combine music and film to communicate in the only way she knows how – through her art – as her family, relationships and career breakthrough hang on the success of her film.