While culture, race, and amusing chic can abstracted people, three women acquisition they allotment a accepted bond--they accept all accomplished claimed tragedy. Their accord heals old wounds and gives them backbone and the achievement for approaching happiness.
Springfield, VA -- Three women apprentice to accessible their hearts and be aware by the acquaintance of alive one addition in Donna Kendall's agitating atypical "Sailing on an Ocean of Tears" (ISBN 9781591460879, Crystal Dreams Publishing 2009).
Isabella, an Italian immigrant who has spent her activity caring for others, is about to abutting her restaurant for the night if she discovers a abandoned woman abaft the restaurant's dumpster. It is cloudburst rain, and the woman looks destitute, so Isabella offers her aliment and shelter. Ruth, the abandoned woman, is afraid to access charity, but afterwards she opens up to Isabella, the two become friends.
Over tea, the two women allotment their activity stories. Ruth's ancestor died in a car abstract if she was alone five, and her abusive, alcoholic mother fabricated it bright Ruth was not wanted. Isabella took over the ancestors restaurant afterwards her mother's aboriginal death. She struggles amid plan and award time for adulation in her life. By administration their memories, Ruth and Isabella ascertain they accept a accepted friend--Bridget, an Irish woman whose calumniating bedmate took her accouchement from her. Bridget had alternate to Ireland, but she is about to appointment the United States again, so the three women plan to get together.
Bridget's appointment with her two accompany sets into motion an absurd alternation of contest that will appropriate accomplished wrongs, alleviate hearts and affluence minds. Each woman carries aural her affection a abysmal anxious for a accurate absolution aloft the balance accoutrement of accomplished choices. In one final footfall they crop together, they acquisition the accepted arena that leads them to their destiny.
"Sailing on an Ocean of Tears" takes the clairvoyant on a adventure through the hearts of three women on two continents, from New York City and the Appalachian mountains, to a bank apple in Ireland and a balmy southern Italian village. Kendall writes with bluntness and benevolence for her characters as if she describes Bridget's adulation for her children: "The clay of a mother's affection is fabricated for adversity so that the accouchement may casket their affliction there; every hurt, every tear, every disappointment. Tis the alone way they can grow." Without accepting sentimental, Kendall turns "Sailing on an Ocean of Tears" into a abrasive acquaintance with three women who become the reader's friends.
About the Author
Born to Italian immigrant parents, Donna Kendall began academy after the account of the English accent but bound accomplished it would become her best friend. After accepting a BS in Secondary Education from the University of Akron, she advised autograph through the Institute of Children's Literature while adequate full-time motherhood. As a top academy teacher, Donna accustomed the account of Who's Who Among America's Teachers and was inducted into the National Honor Roll's Outstanding American Teachers. Following her mother's death, Donna's appointment to her ancestors in Italy aggressive her to access an MFA in Creative Writing from National University. Today, she teaches English at the Northern Virginia Community College. Her aboriginal abbreviate story, "A Heart in Bloom" was appear in the Loving Healing Press album "A Story that Must be Told: True Tales of Transformation." "Sailing on an Ocean of Tears" is her aboriginal novel. With the abutment of her husband, Jim, and her two admirable children, Donna has accomplished her constant dream of writing.
"Sailing on an Ocean of Tears" (ISBN 9781591460879, Crystal Dreams Publishing 2009) can be purchased through bounded and online bookstores. For added information, appointment www.crystaldreamspublishing.com. Publicity contact: www.ReaderViews.com. Review copies accessible aloft request.
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