Kerri Schlottman
writer of novels & other things
 

In the gritty backdrop of rural Pennsylvania, nine-year-old Lulu's encounter with a trucker outside a rundown motel is captured on film by aspiring photographer Quinn who is passing through town. While the image launches Quinn's career, Lulu fights to survive in a volatile home. Decades later, Quinn's "Lulu and the Trucker" has fetched a staggering price at auction as she's preparing for a retrospective of her work. Lulu, grown and struggling to make ends meet, stumbles upon her own image in the newspaper. Determined and emboldened, she attends Quinn's exhibition talk with a single burning question: Why didn't you help me all those years ago?

Examining power, privilege, and the sacrifices one is willing to make to succeed, TELL ME ONE THING boldly asks what each of us owes one another and what we owe ourselves. 

A Shelf Awareness Best Book This Week, a two-time 2024 PenCraft Fiction Award Winner, and a 2023 American Book Fest Best Literary Fiction Book Finalist