Bloodlines - Softcover

Holt, Rochelle Lynn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1420862375 ISBN 13: 9781420862379

Verlag: AuthorHouse, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Bloodli(n)es is a multi-character novel that illuminates one dysfunctional family in contemporary society where "the norm" remains, undoubtedly, mostly in the minds of idealists still rooted in the conservative Fifties. The Forest family members narrate individual and separate alienation from each other and themselves in this poem novel where the House, an invisible protagonist, has the most to say regarding daughters' and sons' estrangement from parents and each other. As heirs to the mental disorder of their dead father, four of the five siblings have scattered to different states in America in an attempt to ignore their past while building new lives. However, each of them, unwittingly, perpetuates the dysfunctional cycle. Jana, Ross, Jr., Tim and Beth spin in their own orbits while Rose, the firstborn, visits most often Vera, the widowed mother, and brother/caregiver Ross, Jr. Beth's debut poetry book, Through the Mirror, serves symbolically to reignite sibling liaisons in conflict with the youngest daughter's blatant characterization of an abnormal family (based on her own personal experience and memories.) Epiphanies and transformations occur, although few and far between, in this realistic rendering of a broken family unit that also includes the voice of Ross, Sr., the ghost, and the House communicate emotions, opinions and sentiments heretofore unverbalized. Bloodlines are Blood Lies until family members face the truth of responsibility at the heart of their bonds.

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ROCHELLE LYNN HOLT was first pen pal and then friend to Virginia Love Long in Bushy Fork, North Carolina. They read together at Butner Federal Penn. in the Eighties. Their correspondence and friendship continued for almost three decades. They even collaborated on several published projects: poetry and non-fiction honored by Pulitizer Prize commendations in the small press world. Rochelle lost her partner of twenty eight years less than two months after the passing of her best friend, Virginia. The losses were devastating. With the permission of both her late friend and Virginia's sister, Rochelle decided to edit the literary letters of Virginia, filled with her poems and ever-present wit. Since Virginia referred to Rochelle as "my twin," the author devised a novel epistolary project entitled, "Pointing to the Moon." Rochelle and Virginia were devotees of the moon and her advising progressions. Oddly enough, Virginia's love of her cats came to be experienced by Rochelle when she entered a new relationship and inherited two tabbies, Iris and Tiffany. Now, the author divides her time outside the city of her birth (Chicago) and her home for the past thirteen years in Ft. Myers, Florida.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: AuthorHouse
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1420862375
• ISBN 13: 9781420862379
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352
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