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Elle Klass

Elle Klass

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A Shadow in Yucatan

A Shadow in Yucatan

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<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>

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<p>For family narrative readers as well as audiences seeking a mold-breaking, trend-changing piece of modern literature, As Snow Falls by Elle Klass is a must-read. John R. Dizon</p> <p>The story is enjoyable, relatable, and romantic- a good sort of sentimental. Terri Klaes Harper</p> <p>This was an excellent read. It tells the beautiful story of a woman's life, her fears, her joys, her loves and friendships from very early childhood to her twilight years.  Kate</p>