Sylvie
Denied
by
Deborah Clark Vance
Genre:
Women's Fiction
As
she enters adulthood in the turbulent 1970s, Sylvie thinks the way to
change a violent world is to become a peaceful person. Yet she slowly
sees how a childhood trauma thwarts her peaceful intentions and leads
her to men with a dark side – including Enzo, the man she marries.
Even as his behavior becomes increasingly volatile, she believes she
can make things better with love and understanding. But finally
living in terror. Sylvie must find a way to escape with her daughter
and a way to claim her place in the world.
Originally
from the Chicago suburbs, Deborah Clark Vance has lived throughout
the US and in Italy. While raising her children, she earned a living
by teaching piano lessons, selling her original artwork, editing a
health journal, translating Italian, writing freelance articles and
textbook chapters, working on a children's educational TV series,
teaching in a day treatment program for adults with mental and
emotional illnesses, creating garden designs and teaching as a
college adjunct. After completing a Ph.D. in Communication and
Culture at Howard University, she taught and served as Chair of the
Department of Communication & Cinema at McDaniel College in
Maryland. Although she also contributed articles and chapters to
academic publications, those only earned her a modicum of prestige
rather than income. She's keenly interested in the natural world as
well as in social justice, spirituality and women's issues. "Sylvie
Denied" is her debut novel.
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This looks like an interesting story on how childhood can overshadow an entire life.
ReplyDeleteDebP -- yes, good insight. And how important it is to reflect back on childhood in order to understand those events as an adult.
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