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
'Burning Bridges,' is a story designed for women who are being abused both mentally and/or physically by their companions. Similar to Sandra's situation, (one of the main characters in this novel), kids are involved, which makes this dreadful situation even more daunting. In Sandra's case, several opportunities will present itself where she'll have a chance to get away from Lance and move on with her life, but, its up to her to take advantage of those situations. At the end of the day, Sandra will either remain by Lance's side, or, make him pay dearly for every Bridge he's Burned with her and her family.
