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 story of how befriending my ex for 13 years affected my life. Learn what happened in the end. My ex and I became very good friends after our divorce. We were married for nearly 3 decades. After I left him 13 years ago he never verbally abused me again. This was a healing time for me and our family during this time. Recently he shut his son & I out of his life when he remarried. I always knew this day would come but I somehow thought he had changed enough in the last 13 years as not to do this to us. My relationship does not matter at this time after all I am the one who ended the marriage because of abuse and unfaithfulness. But I do feel his one and only son deserved to be treated differently along the way. Choices...we all make them...some selfish and some sacrificial. Then we have to live with the out come. Someday he will know if he made the right choice. I think he already knows. Read my book, relax with me, cry with me or even laugh with or at me. Because laughing is so very healing to your body.And this is what this book has done for me. It not only healed my spirit and mind but my body also.