Seventeen year old Madison Brooks grew up in a single family household with her mother Joyce. Her mother died shattering her world. At the funeral she meets her father long thought dead in Desert Storm. Well this Lazarus can go back from whence he came. She doesn't need him.
This is about young Marlene Tulloch whose mother died giving birth to her. She is raised by a cruel grandmother Estrella. She's confronted by abuse and, difficulties, until age twelve when she went to live with her sister Gloria. Despite the hardship the kindness of friends and strangers she survives and succeeds becoming a teacher, marri
This is about young Marlene Tulloch whose mother died giving birth to her. She is raised by a cruel grandmother Estrella. She's confronted by abuse and, difficulties, until age twelve when she went to live with her sister Gloria. Despite the hardship the kindness of friends and strangers she survives and succeeds becoming a teacher, married and raises four boys. Faced with her own mortality retreats into her childhood memories. Through the haze of pain her life unfolds - a journey marked by struggle, but also by strength and resilience.
This anthology is dedicated to my mother and also to persons who succeed when challenged. The poems are eclectic, inquisitive, daring and sensitive. They are conversational and evokes passion in the reader.
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