reviews

Grief and Giving and the Magic of Elephants Author: Susan R. Greenway The world will never be the same for 12-year-old Quinn. Her mother recently died in a skiing accident, and everything is colored with loneliness and guilt. Her mother wouldn’t have been there if Quinn hadn’t wanted to ski. If Quinn hadn’t been running behind, she is sure that her mother would have survived. To help her grieving niece, Quinn’s aunt takes her to Thailand to spend one summer working at an elephant sanctuary. But Quinn is distraught to learn about the abuse the elephants experienced before being rescued and [...]

Searching for Mother Love Author: Marina DelVecchio Marina’s life is one of being in-between, merging into the unseen grey areas, a ghost, unwanted, unloved, misunderstood, fading away, longing to step into the quite blackness of non-existence. To her, this othering is the definition of life as a woman, as a child with two mothers who never wanted her: the first a violent prostitute, the second a verbally abusive asexual. In Unsexed Marina shares her despair and strength, clawing her way through extreme trauma and abuse, physical and mental. Unsexed is her story, the dance between objectification and the longing for love [...]