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Unsexed

Searching for Mother Love Author: Marina DelVecchio Marina’s life is one of being in-between, merging into the unseen grey areas, a ghost, unwanted, unloved, misunderstood, fading away, longing to step into the quite blackness of non-existence. To her, this othering is the definition of life as a woman, as a child with two mothers who never wanted her: the first a violent prostitute, the second a verbally abusive asexual. In Unsexed Marina shares her despair and strength, clawing her way through extreme trauma and abuse, physical and mental. Unsexed is her story, the dance between objectification and the longing for love [...]

2024-07-16T08:27:23-07:00July 14th, 2024|Tags: |

Girls, The

A Fictionalized Version of the Manson Cult Author: Emma Cline In The Girls author Emma Cline utilizes a fictionalized account to try and answer the long-time mystery: what made the Mason cult murder? How did Charles Manson, the pseudo-religious group leader, talk the others into such atrocities? How did normal girls become killers? In this story, we see a similar commune through the eyes of 14-year-old Evie, who has become charmed by the seeming freedom of the older girls and is running away from her rich, yet ultimately isolated life. Evie is most fascinated by the figure of Suzanne, and [...]

2024-07-05T17:28:04-07:00July 5th, 2024|Tags: , , , , |

All You’ll See Is Sky

A Memoir of Tragedy and Redemption in Africa Author: Janet A. Wilson Janet Wilson has had enough of her staid existence – of coloring within the lines, of abdicating her dreams, of the mundanity of daily life and an unexciting marriage. With or without her husband, she is determined to make a 25,000-mile drive across Africa, from Cape Town to Cairo. This time, she’ll answer the call to adventure, the struggle and strife of truly being alive, regardless of what’s smart, what’s responsible, what other people think she can and should do as a woman, a wife, a mother. Along the way, she [...]

2024-07-01T07:36:25-07:00June 29th, 2024|Tags: , , , , , , , |
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