A story so frank, honest and deliberately written, as one woman struggles with self-identity after an accident at a hair salon leads her down a course of multiple reconstructive surgeries, stroke and amnesia, thus opening up a bigger can of all that is wrong in her life. The coming to terms and digging deep into one's own soul as a survival technique to get through some of life's atrocities. Taking up conversation with a God you barely have belief in anymore, in a place so deep and desperate that the physical pain adheres to the emotional pain, where the further you fall, the greater is the abandoning of hope. A powerful surge of human spirit springs from the gutter of this woman's hopelessness and moves her forward, gives her strength and an unyielding ability to break from her past. This is a story of accident, death, loss, sacrifice, struggle, self - identity, and the finding of oneself as a woman, and as a mother. Taken from Preface: I remember a time when my fingers were so worn, my eyes so tired, my tears so dry, thoughts coated in a layer of dust. The walls were tinged and cracked, and I sat, helpless, forgotten, numb, even lost. How many people I wonder, have been there, that same place, and just waited? What their eyes have seen, what they know for sure, what they remember as the round face of a clock ticks in the background. Where the panic rises inside of you, and you look around at whom to call, and then, you call no one, as you push away inside yourself. The saturation began to burn my eyes, tingling the flesh of my scalp. My scalp in an envelope of raging heat was now left suffocating in the toxic chemicals that had drawn numerous overlapping gaping wounds in places that once housed my flesh. The entire right side of my scalp, was no more.The salon had just become my place of deliverance into my own carnage.
About the Author: Having captured the ability to pull from the seed of her own life, Lillian Jade is an accomplished writer of non-fiction. Her short stories, essays, fiction and poetry have been published over the years in Reader's Digest, Ct Journal Post, Runner's World and Glamour Magazine. Her first published book debuted in 2011; entitled Folds of Flesh A Runner's Journal of Meditative Cleansing previewing her ability to write in descriptive dialogue. A first book of a poetry entitled Zoetry, was subsequently published in 2012, showing the many fingers of her writing presence. Book 2 of her Naked in front of GOD Series, Life Changes, is scheduled to be in print winter 2012. Book 3 of the Series, Letters to My Children, Things I Always Meant to Say scheduled for 2013. Author divides her residency between New York and Maryland.