Title: A Secret Women Amazon buy link today only $1.99 Kindle Edition
Author: Rose Solari
Published: Santa Fe Writer's Project
ISBN: 978-0982625194
Page
Count: 320
Synopsis: Louise Terry is the quintessential, modern
American woman; a successful and independent artist, sexually liberated and
head strong, she’s determined to carve out a life for herself where her
painting comes first and where she can avoid messy romantic entanglements. But
when her estranged mother, Margaret, dies, leaving a box of documents, photos,
and journals, Louise discovers in its contents a new and very different woman
from the one who raised her. This Margaret was admired by Catholic priests and
Wiccan priestesses alike for her spiritual gifts and was working, at the time
of her death, on assembling her visions of a 12th-century cross-dressing woman
mystic who not only managed to infiltrate the male bastion of Glastonbury
Abbey, but who instigated the tragic fire that burned it to the ground in 1184.
Determined to pursue the fragments her mother left behind, Louise travels to
England where she meets a cast of characters whom she must depend on to find
her way. Blurring the boundaries between past and present, between the body and
the spirit, between female and male, this page-turning mystery is a sexy romp
through time and space, a profound meditation on the mother-daughter
connection, and an enlightening exploration of what it means to make love, to
make art, and to make a life worth living.
Author
Information: Rose Solari
is the author of two full-length collections of poetry, Difficult Weather and
Orpheus in the Park, and the play Looking for Guenevere, which retells
Arthurian legend from a woman’s perspective. Her poetry and prose have appeared
in many journals and anthologies, including American Poetry: The Next Generation,
Just Like A Girl: A Manifesta, and Initiate: New Oxford Writing. She is the
recipient of the Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize, an Academy of American Poets
University Prize, an EMMA Award for excellence in print journalism, and grants
from the Maryland State Arts Council and the DC Commission on the Arts and
Humanities. In spring of 2012, she will be a visiting fellow at Kellogg
College, Oxford. She lives in Bethesda, Maryland.
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