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Sandi Perry

Sandi Perry

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I'm an avid reader and started writing novels several years ago. I like giving voice to strong, interesting characters and telling their story in a fun way.

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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<div class="drkgry">Allison's personality is as steely as her eyes. But hints of vulnerability, such as a traumatic childhood experience, and a fear of flying despite for the fact that she's an heir to a successful airline company, have you rooting for her. I found myself devouring this book to see if she'd let Alex, or any other man for that matter, inside her world.<br /><br /> I liked the fact that Allison isn't predictable; neither is the truth behind her father's death. And, as an art enthusiast, I also enjoyed the sub-plot about Allison's art gallery and her hidden talent.</div>