Journal of Druid angel and shape-shifter opens aperture to a altered apple alms abysmal and abstruse statements about women, adulation and cocky discovery.
Cambridge, MA -- The change in centuries signals a abundant about-face in our culture. Globalization, the environment, our government--there are abounding systems in crisis appropriate now, and crisis consistently agency abundant crisis as able-bodied as opportunity. Looking at the way the sexes accept accompanying through history may accommodate admired insights for revolutionizing how we see one another, in about-face allowance our absolute planet through this time of transition. We charge new paradigms, and by hearkening aback to added cultures and times we glimpse a eyes of adulation based on accord and mutuality, wherein 'male' and 'female' can be apparent conceivably as altered instead of as opposites.
In his new spell-binding novel, "Memoirs of a Shape-Shifter" (ISBN 0971377030), Thomas Kaplan-Maxfield tells the adventure of Nikki Helmik, who allotment to her hometown in New England afterward the afterlife of her parents. Nikki becomes affronted at herself for falling in adulation with Philip Eveless, son of the richest ability brace in Gloucester, and in her attack to get abroad from him and ascertain her power, she finds she is descended from a Druid angel and shape-shifter, Anne Cleves. Anne has larboard a account which Nikki translates, and in so accomplishing comes to accept the aberration amid adulation and power.
"It comes at a time if Nikki is at her wit's end with attention to abounding aspects of her life" Kaplan-Maxfield explains. "She's abdicate accepting a lawyer, she's active out of money, she's conflicted about active in her parents' home, she hates herself for admiring Philip, and she's activity herself growing older." Anne's account accordingly comes as a aperture into a altered world.
"Anne has apparent the botheration of adulation and power, because she's lived through it and she's had agents appearance her the way" Kaplan-Maxfield adds. "Anne has something we in the avant-garde apple generally lack, which is a container--call it a tradition, history, purpose--that helps cast her." Nikki is like Anne as she starts out devaluing adulation and overvaluing power. Anne's adventure is advised to alongside Nikki's, in that sense, initiating Nikki into a new way of seeing.
"Memoirs of a Shape-Shifter" is the adventure of self-discovery of a woman’s all-too-contemporary claimed about-face that oscillates amid accuracy and romance, attentive ball and gothic adventitious story. The book’s advised admirers is "women, avant-garde women, accomplished and not-educated women, absolute women, mothers, sisters, old women, adolescent women; all women. After that it's anyone who's absorbed in adulation and who worships at love's altar," states Kaplan-Maxfield.
"Power is not love," concludes accepted lover of "love" Kaplan-Maxfield, "and if we bethink that, it will about-face our account of love. In added words, adulation accouterment our shapes; if we love, we change or acquiesce ourselves to be changed, by our beloved, by the adulation itself."
Thomas Kaplan-Maxfield is an award-winning short-story biographer who lives in Boston, Massachusetts. Holding a PhD, he has accomplished both autograph and abstract for about 20 years at Tufts University and Boston College, area he currently teaches a chic on gothic abstract and one blue-blooded "Love and Other Difficulties." "Memoirs of a Shape-Shifter" can be begin at above online bookstores as able-bodied as ordered through bounded booksellers. Reviews, a synopsis, the aboriginal chapter, and biographical advice can be begin at the publisher's website, www.keplerpress.com; added advice is accessible on the author’s website at www.tkaplanmaxfield.com.
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