Gail Longino

The Self-Actualized Baby (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Willow Wilton dreamed of traveling the world, but at age twenty-one and being illiterate, a high school dropout, and coming from a very poor family, that dream was not likely to happen in this lifetime. She had never been outside of Oakwood. Her passion to travel fueled her rich imagination with dreams of hosting a travel show. She saw herself in foreign lands, talking to a worldwide audience. Cecil, Willows oldest brother, thought he was clever to create an excuse to visit Baby at her new apartment one night. He started a fight to distract her, and without her realizing it, he had her extra apartment key in his pocket. The next day, Cecil found twenty-dollar bills under Babys mattress in her old room at home. He was not searching for money, but there it was. He filled three black garbage bags. It was her savings from three years of part-time work. He thought in some way that she owed him this money. After all, he was her teacher. He was the one who needed to talk some sense into her. She was a dreamer who thought she could travel; she didnt even own a car. Cecil often advised her, You need to get married and have some kids. You dont need to dream about traveling all over the world. Will Willow have the strength to battle her older brother? Can she keep going toward her dream while he is blocking her? The harder she tries to move toward her goal, the stronger he becomes. Maybe he is right. Maybe she should be like Ma.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris US
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781503582576
• Artikelnr.: 52573647

Autorenporträt

After listening to her mother Gail Longino express her desire to write fiction her entire life, Beth Robinson said, "It's now or never, Mom. In November sign up for NANOWRIMO and write 50,000 words on your novel in one month." Gail followed her daughter's advice and to Gail's surprise, she was a winner in 2013 and published her first book The Penta Millionaire that year. In 2014, she repeated the success with her second book, The Self-Actualized Baby. She is now writing a third book The Unamished. All of the heroines of these novels live in a small town in Mississippi. Oakwood has a population of just over three thousand. Evelyn Grey Smithe lives in the center of town on the prestigious Governor Street, Willow Wilton lives two miles north of town with a large family of brothers, and Gretchen Oatley lives two miles south of town on the organic farm she and her husband John run with the help of their four children and a few field hands. Willow's brothers, with their freewheeling lifestyles, create havoc on these three women. An unlikely friendship bonds these women together as they face the challenges the Wilton brothers create. When Gail is not writing, she is visiting the families of her four children, watching Netflix series, playing the piano, dabbling in art projects, and Skyping with Emma Hsu in Taiwan. Gail has lived in Vermont, Salzburg, and Vienna. She is a fifth generation Mississippian and now lives in Houston.