Mama Bellissima

A collection of memories about Maman who had alzheimer disease and cancer. Her character is painted and the painful changes brought about by the disease have not yet undermined her giving and charming personality

What unifies these stories is the voice of the writer. Life Surge explores the nature of sexual arousal, the special attraction between strangers or in unusual circumstances.Searching for Caroline is the wandering of a young man's heart trying to cope with the loss of his wife which causes him to 'see her' in the strangers he meets. They make Furniture explores the psychology of selling, as well as the subtle brainwashing that takes place. More of the Same, explores motivation underlying behavior. Say Yes to Life shows that change is sometimes possible as in the voluntary rehabilitation of this young woman who was both a drug addict and a lesbian and struggled to be 'clean'and 'straight.'Earth Mother is an encounter with the social assistance system by a proud older couple. "Tenants" and "Taking stock" are time capsules of our times, (current affairs) but the protagonists in the struggles are always universal man.

The Beaumonte’ patriarch perished in the fire on Burn Out Bridge, leaving behind a broken family, unanswered questions and life-altering secrets. As the Beaumonte' matriarch withers away, painful truths come to light revealing the depth of one family’s brokenness. What really happened on that fateful day in June of 1973? What or who caused the fire that burned down old US 90?

To Kill a Mockingbird meets One Crazy Summer in this powerful, bittersweet debut about one girl's journey to reconnect with her mother and learn the truth about her father in the tumultuous times of the Jim Crow South. "Timely, captivating, and lovely. So glad this book is in the world." --Jacqueline Woodson, author of Brown Girl Dreaming In the small town of Alcolu, South Carolina, in 1944, 12-year-old Ella spends her days fishing and running around with her best friend Henry and cousin Myrna. But life is not always so sunny for Ella, who gets bullied for her light skin tone and whose mother is away pursuing a jazz singer dream in Boston. So Ella is ecstatic when her mother invites her to visit for Christmas. Little does she expect the truths she will discover about her mother, the father she never knew and her family's most unlikely history. And after a life-changing month, she returns South and is shocked by the news that her schoolmate George has been arrested for the murder of two local white girls. Bittersweet and eye-opening, How High the Moon is a timeless novel about a girl finding herself in a world all but determined to hold her down.

In this diary, Dorothy takes her husband to the hospital because he has a high fever, suffers episodes of fainting and refuses food and drink. She is hoping the doctors will start treatment to lessen the fever and help him eat and regain his strength. None of this happens because the "team" is obsessed with diagnosis. Once there is a diagnosis, all they have to do is go to a computer and find the treatment all ready for them. Besides, various members of the team keep repeating the same tests, unconcerned about whether the patient can tolerate them. Many of these tests are extremely invasive and dangerous. Their obsessive search for a diagnosis bends on OCD. And in the end Dubono drops a bombshell proving their final diagnosis to be wrong any way. Many important observations are expressed concerning our health care system. Worth reading, if you are inclined to think.