Marketing Straight to the Heart

GO Marketing Straight to the Heart


Author: Barry Feig
Type: eBook
Language: English
Released: 1997
Publisher: No
Page Count: 224
Format: pdf
ISBN-10: 0814403557
ISBN-13: 9780585034348
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Description:
From Publishers Weekly Rodgers's somber novel (following her memoir Bald in the Land of Big Hair), weaves a tapestry of three Houston women's lives, each touched by bereavement. Pia, a high-powered career woman and mother of grown twin sons, unravels after the unexpected death of her husband, Edgar, on the night of December 31, 2000. Though she remarries a few years later, she suffers debilitating agoraphobia and severs herself from human connection except for the occasional phone call to her incarcerated sister, Lily. Serving a seven-year sentence for the manslaughter of her five-year-old niece, Easter, in a drunk driving accident, Lily struggles to accept responsibility for the child's death. Rodgers crafts Lily's stark, stripped-down narrative from journal entries, transcriptions of her phone conversations and quotes from the books she reads in the prison library. Beth, Easter's grieving mother and a less fully realized character than her sisters-in-law Lily and Pia, renders her world in equally bleak terms—"good days" or "not good days," a conceit that tires quickly. Rodgers is at her best when she choreographs an intersection of the three narratives, as when Beth finds Pia bloodied in her bathtub from a suicide attempt. It is in these interstices that the story delivers and "the secret sisters" attempt to resurrect their lives. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Following her memoir about her battle with cancer, Bald in the Land of Big Hair (2001), Rodgers turns to fiction with a story narrated by three women whose lives are shadowed by grief. Hard-charging consultant Pia is devastated when her husband of 20 years collapses at a party and dies. Hollowed and diminished by her grieving, she eventually remarries but suffers from severe bouts of agoraphobia and depression. Her sister, Lily, incarcerated for killing her niece, Easter, in a drunk-driving accident, makes plaintive entries in a diary about how she gets through each day in jail by shutting down her emotions one by one as her husband divorces her and her family stops calling. Easter's mother, Beth, a devout Christian, is consumed by bitterness over her loss but insists on showing up at each of Lily's parole hearings mouthing words of forgiveness. Rodgers' novel suffers from unevenness--Beth's narration is underwritten while Lily's is somewhat over the top. It is through Pia's words that Rodgers' tale finds its full measure as a story of a woman who comes through the most painful of losses with a renewed appreciation for life. Joanne WilkinsonCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.