Persephone Abbott happily lives in Amsterdam. In 2024, she took an extended visit to the USA to (re)connect with family and friends. There she addressed the issues of family trauma that she experienced and looked into her father’s missing archival materials. Her travel blog can be found here.
Persephone has re-released her father’s comic novel Mordecai of Monterey Keith Kumasen Abbott. This book is Keith Kumasen Abbott‘s version of the same times and stories that inspirated Richard Brautigan’s Confederate General from Big Sur. But it’s a completely different story, of course! Mordecai often gets a feeling that good things are going to happen to him, and he feels this way because he has a disease called melanoia. Ever heard about melanoia?
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Idle Opportunities by Persephone Abbott is a comic novel about a young singer moving from Paris to the Netherlands in 1992. The book is available in paperback and ebook format on Amazon Multiple musicians have expressed their appreciation of the depictions of true experiences of the musical world.
One reviewer said: I recently came across your book Idle Opportunities on Amazon and I was immediately charmed by the story. The way you follow Cynthia as she navigates the highs and lows of opera school and family drama is both entertaining and heartfelt. Your novel balances humor emotion and insight in a way that keeps readers engaged from the first page to the last.
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Another reviewer said: Your story brings to life the challenges of pursuing artistic dreams while managing family dynamics. Your humor and well-drawn characters make the story relatable and engaging for readers who love comic novels with depth, memorable personalities, and emotional resonance.
Disclaimer: Both reviews were produced by other people using AI. Persephone says, “Thank you for taking the time to express the unexpressible.”
Persephone Abbott used to sing and teach classical music. Here she is singing in one of her last projects, “Yenta’s Lied” in 2021. Music by Allan Segall, text Miriam Ulinover.
Inspired by her father’s surrealistic novel Rhino Ritz, Persephone’s created an online fictional novel in the form of a blog: Routine Apparitions. Keith Kumasen Abbott’s important notebooks and manuscripts have gone missing. But so is Keith because he died years ago. This doesn’t stop the ghost of the Zen monk from wandering around Longmont Colorado looking for his stuff. He also keeps himself mildly busy trying solving local crimes with his zany buddies because they like to hang out in the other realm in bars and make plans. But don’t despair: Keith’s been given the assistance of three teenagers who are experiencing the malaise of teenagerdom and grappling with adult problems. They really don’t have much time for him. Meanwhile the region is in the grips oddball religious zealots, in the shape of Rabbi Tirzah Pyrestone, Gator Matcha, El-Don Mast, Teary Filisteinsdatter Mast, Rabbi Dinah Mifferet Lakein, a misbehaving Catholic oblate and a bunch of Mormons. But wait! Don’t forget Police Dog Meth T and Goody Got Two Shoes who are directing their dream product: Snatch Funeral Home. Plus Buck Rogers…because why not? Then there’s always the short solo by the operatic water demon that you won’t want to miss. How will this end? Will the rabbi apologize? Will the truth come out on the obituary page? And: will Keith find his missing materials?
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