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Cabin Lessons: Reflections

By: Janet L. Furst

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In Reflections, the second book of the Cabin Lessons series, Grace returns to her childhood home to live with her parents and prepare for her divorce. While there, she reaches for her son, Justin, with calls and letters. Through writing, Grace expresses her sadness about being separated from Justin and her fears of starting life anew after years of marriage, and finds a way to trust in the light that promises peace.

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1982245646

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9781982245641

Everyday Truth of a Rainbow Woman

By: Janet L. Furst

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Everyday Truth of a Rainbow Woman

By: Janet L. Furst

In e-mails to her daughter, Grace explores her feelings of fear and love, the preciousness and tensions in her relationships—particularly with her husband—and her place within the cultural traditions of Appalachia. She writes of everyday happenings as well as happenings in past lives of herself and her family. Resolution comes in a way that she does not anticipate. From Kirkus Reviews In this debut novel, a middle-aged woman explores past lives and present tensions in emails to her daughter. “I was Sha Li, a priestess of the highest order, a worshipper of Kuan Yin, goddess of compassion and mercy.” So begins the first of many notes, via email, that Grace Heronheart drafted (and mostly sent) to Alyce, her college-aged, eldest daughter, just after Grace quit her 20-year job as a school psychologist in rural West Virginia. After noting that “our families probably think that I lost my marbles,” Grace tells Alyce that she’s actually “finding my rainbow colored, multifaceted marbles” by pursing her dream of being a writer. She provides her daughter with everyday-life updates, particularly regarding Alyce’s disapproving father; she also shares the story of her past incarnation as the aforementioned Sha Li, a secondary wife of a Chinese warrior. She tells tales of other past lives, such as Zete, a “dark-skinned” tribal “prophetess,” and Mourning Dove, a Native American who fell in love with a trapper. Along the way, Grace details the roles that Alyce and the rest of her present-day family played in these past existences. By novel’s end, she tells her daughter that she’s come to the conclusion that “I only write my own script. I cannot write anyone else’s,” and embarks on “a new adventure, and a new beginning.” First-time author Furst has written an engaging tale of midlife awakening that reads like a memoir, even as it skillfully deploys past-life metaphors. Grace’s missives combine the relatable tone of a typical email from a mom (such as when she applauds Alyce’s choice in boyfriend) with striking tableaux of imagined lives. Sha Li’s tale is particularly poignant and reminiscent of the works of Amy Tan and Jung Chang. It’s rather ambitious to cover three past lives and a conflict-ridden present, however, and the “P.S.” about Grace’s modern-day decision comes as a rather abrupt bombshell. Overall, though, Furst effectively sketches a character that lives out her assertion that “sanctuary can be found in all my rainbow stories.” A memorable depiction of an emerging writer exploring the many prisms of her voice.

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1504347080

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Cabin Lessons: a River

Book I of the Cabin Lessons Series

By: Janet L. Furst

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Cabin Lessons: a River

Book I of the Cabin Lessons Series

By: Janet L. Furst

The first book in the Cabin Lessons series, A River, continues the story of Grace after she leaves her house and husband. She comes to a cabin by a river where she stays for a while, before sojourning to other places. Each turn in the road is a lesson. In her narration, Grace often reminisces about her old life as a way of coming to terms with the new.

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1504373383

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Here Tomorrow

Making the Most of Life After Fifty

By: Janet K. Belsky,University Janet Belsky

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Here Tomorrow

Making the Most of Life After Fifty

By: Janet K. Belsky,University Janet Belsky

Based on the experiences of thousands of older Americans, Here Tomorrow is the only book to report to the general reader the latest research findings in medicine, psychology, and the social sciences. For people in the second half of life, the news is reassuring. More of us are living longer and staying healthier than ever before. As we age, many changes in our bodies and minds are actually for the better. Her goal is to show how to make the later years 'the pinnacle they ought to be.' She succeeds at that pursuit because she helps people over fifty learn to love active, independent, and meaningful lives.

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034536452X

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