Mary Clark

Racing The Sun (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Leila Payson and her friends are back with more adventures in Racing The Sun, a sequel to The Horizon Seekers. Leila moves with ease between the present and the future, whose visions inspire her. In the present, she starts a group to bring people of varying abilities together and into the community. She helps a young man, a paraplegic, realize his dream of designing better wheelchairs and prepare for a race. Raoul, Leila's former hearing-impaired student, is back, along with the quixotic Maria Picot, and the combative guidance counselor Mrs. Grisjun. And then there's lunch with Leila's oldest friend, Caroline, who always speaks her mind. Meanwhile, she is haunted by an early childhood trauma and discovers her mother and father both have secrets. Leila and Mark return to Africa, where they have both worked before. Her eyes are opened when she sees Mark's work in Rwanda. She visits Dr. Anna Larssen, the director of a ground-breaking group in South Africa, and Baruti, an occupational therapist, whose work influenced her life many years before. And will she at long last see the wild flamingos?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mary Clark
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781370340262
• Artikelnr.: 48961426

Autorenporträt

Mary Clark spent her formative years in Florida where she was infused with awe and respect for the natural world. She was also aware of the lives of migrant workers, segregation, and the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement. She graduated from Rutgers-Newark College of Arts and Sciences. In 1975, she moved to New York City and worked in the arts programs of St. Clement's Church in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood. For many years she worked for community organizations and founded a community newspaper.

She is the author of Tally: An Intuitive Life (All Things That Matter Press); Community: Journal of Power Politics and Democracy in Hell's Kitchen; Into The Fire: A Poet's Journey through Hell's Kitchen; the poetry novel, Children of Light (Ten Penny Players' BardPress), and Covenant: Growing Up in Florida's Lost Paradise. In her latest novel, Passages, a young aspiring writer explores sex, gender, fame, poverty, and love in 1970s New York City.