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
Everyone can relate to falling in love, and sometimes falling in love at the wrong time, with the wrong person-the unavailable person. The person that steals your heart, caresses your soul, refreshens your mind. That same person can unfortunately be the same person that does the very opposite: tempts you, deceives you, enthralls you, yet hurts you-leaves you with dire situations, painful memories, unspeakable decisions, and vital temptations…the end result is up to the decision maker in moving forward. We've all been there in some form, right???
