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
My family was the inspiration, as they told me their tales which were so interesting that as I wrote down those tales they hatched themselves into this book - so I just went with it.
The Taffe family is “real” and their tales true. However, this book has been partly fictionalised for your enjoyment. In some cases names, characters, places and incidents have been changed.
Rooted in the Soul main characters website: http://www.youtube.com/user/LucilleTaffe
For more information about the author you will find her on Facebook or check out her website: www.wix.com/taffe22/millicent
