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
Matt Archer: Blade's Edge, book two in the Matt Archer series, is a coming of age story for Matt. In book one, he was just learning what it meant to be a monster hunter. Now, he's fully on board with his team and facing greater challenges than ever before. In addition to his hunting life, his home life radically changes: he has a girlfriend now and has to learn how to balance "work" with a relationship, he learns about some pretty serious family secrets, and his relationship with his best friend goes through some bump transformations as well. It's not easy being a teenage monster hunter, but Matt's determined not to let it destroy him. Whether or not he's successful is up to you, the reader.