Brookfield resident Carol Frei began writing age 13, when she was growing up in Port Washington, Long Island, N.Y. She began suffering from depression when she was 15, and found “writing was very therapeutic and cathartic for me.”

In January, she reached an important milestone in any writer’s life when her first novel, “Snowblind,” was published.

“So far the reception from people has been very good. They say they can’t put it down,” said Frei, 48, who has lived in Brookfield for the past 25 years with her husband, Peter, and their daughter, Marie.

Frei said the futuristic work is “a controversial and suspenseful social-science fiction novel that examines issues of racism, parental roles and government corruption.”

It takes place in the 2070s, after “the moral decline of American society in the 2020s,” when scientists discover how to test children on their potential to nurture vs. their abilities as workers.

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