• Author
  • Book
  • Story behind the book
  • Media Links
  • Reviews
Lauren Marrero

Lauren Marrero

About

Lauren Marrero, a freelance author and poet, has beenwriting stories since she first learned to spell, though her skillssignificantly improved while studying English Literature at the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley. An avid traveler, Lauren loves exploring the world anduses her knowledge of history and world cultures to make her stories comealive.

Her debut novel, Seducing the Laird, was published by BlackLyon Publishing (2011). She is a contributing author in the UnCONventionalshort story anthology (2012). Other stories and poems have been published inZigZag Stories (2011), Mirror Dance (2009), The Fifth Di... (2009), andFirstWriter (2008) magazines.

While not traveling the world in search of adventure, LaurenMarrero resides in Glendale, CA. Follow her on twitter: @lauglow 

A Shadow in Yucatan

A Shadow in Yucatan

0.0
0 ratings

Description

<p>A mythical jewel of a story… A true story told on a beach in Yucatan, A Shadow tells Stephanie's story but it was also the story of the golden time. Its nostalgia sings like cicadas in the heat.</p><p>An American ‘Under Milkwood’, this distilled novel of the Sixties evokes the sounds, music and optimism on the free-wheelin streets and parks of Coconut Grove. You can hear Bob Dylan still strumming acoustic; smoke a joint with Fred Neil; and Everybody’s Talkin is carried on the wind.</p><p>Stephanie, a young hairdresser living in lodgings finds herself pregnant. Refused help from her hard Catholic mother in New York, unable to abort her baby, she accepts the kindness of Miriam, her Jewish landlady, whose own barren life spills into compassionate assistance for the daughter she never had.</p><p>The poignancy of its ending, its generosity and acceptance, echoes the bitter disappointment of those of us who hoped for so much more, but who remember its joy, and its promise, as though untarnished by time.</p>

Story Behind The Book

Media Links

Reviews

&quot;Thrilling, intelligent, sensuous and filled with emotional swings and plot twists...&quot;<br />-Kevin Shelby, producer<br /><br />&quot;'Seducing The Laird' is a fast-paced read with great emotional depth, filled with lots of action and intrigue. The heroine plots herself from one conflict to another, making this a fun read and a sparkling debut by Lauren Marrero!&quot;<br />-Guido Verweyen, director