Painting Bridges A Novel eBook Patricia Averbach
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Painting Bridges is a lovely exploration of the ways we grieve, and the ways we heal. -Ann Hood, author of The Knitting Circle and The Obituary Writer.......
Pat Averbach's Painting Bridges is a graceful debut novel of grief and redemption. Part memorial, part love story, part coming-into-one's -own, it is a classic narrative that reaches out to every kind of reader. -Liz Rosenberg, author of The Laws of Gravity......Samantha doesn't want to talk to anyone until her life is turned up-side-down by a young deaf girl who can't talk at all. Patricia Averbach finds just the right details to pull us into Samantha's world that bridges Cleveland and rural Catawba County. Painting Bridges is an intimate, in-depth look at how we can climb out of the depth of loss to experience the world anew. -Sarah Willis, author of Somethings that Stay
Painting Bridges A Novel eBook Patricia Averbach
Painting Bridges reminded me of all that I have to be grateful for. When we ae in a depression, we cannot believe that there is a time when we will look forward to another day. Nor can we believe that someone we have never met,( a deaf child) can make us believe that we want to continue to live. How this evolved for the main character, made merealize .....................Life is Good..........There is much that can give us the desire to live, even induced by someone who cannot converse with us, If we pay attention to our feelings, we can climb out of the water and begin to enjoy living.. Loved the book.
Dotti S.
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Painting Bridges A Novel eBook Patricia Averbach Reviews
Somewhere in Southwestern New York, a young widow,
indifferent to the world except for the at-home graves
of her late husband and daughter stumbles into the lives of another little girl, this one almost entirely
deaf, her policeman father, an her estranged, rebellious mother.
Alternately pushed and pulled by her too-cheerful
recovering alcoholic mother mother in law, her comically overbearing family of M.D.s in Ohio and her new child fostering arrangement, she discovers a quietly startling series of connections.
Painting Bridges leads us from Samantha's determined seeming static ways through a chapter of unlooked for change to the future of what is still a very young life against a backdrop of controversy over the treatment of the deaf in the 1970s.
Averbach makes it clear that then as now, we the
individuals will not be kept out of our own lives.
Patricia Averbach is one good writer! Without plot gimmicks or tired technique, she seduces us into this story. She makes us care about its characters. And along the way, she rewards us with universal truths. Highly recommended.
CJ
This is a poignant story of two individuals, widow and child, abandoned and grieving in different ways, and how they find each other. Both isolated from the world and speechless, they return to the world together, first, in silence and eventually, in love I heartily recommend this book.
This is a moving, beautifully written novel. It examines loss and renewal in a story that keeps you reading. The characters are richly drawn and unforgettable. A great read.
The produce info will be updated shortly, but this is a new release from our Bottom Dog Press and its Harmony Series of books. Here is a little more info on the book and Patricia Averbach..."In today's world of very early identification of deafness, surgical implantation of cochlear implants and endless wireless technology and downloadable apps, Painting Bridges is magnificent in presenting a sensitive and accurate depiction of the 1970s. The novel presents a time when late identification of deafness was the norm, resulting in limited language and speech development, amplification equipment that was rudimentary and bulky, and deaf educators were at war with one another in pursuit of parents' hearts and minds. Patricia Averbach has written a great historical novel documenting a contentious period in deaf education." -Beverly A. Goldstein, Ph.D
Patricia Averbach, a Cleveland native, is the former director of the Chautauqua Writers Center in Chautauqua, New York. Her previous work includes a memoir about working as Anzia Yezierska's literary assistant at age sixteen and an article about the Jewish community in a virtual world called Second Life. She holds a degree in speech pathology from Case Western Reserve University where she worked in a deaf nursery during the 1970's. This is her first novel.
A nice easy read. Held my interest and was well written
I loved Painting Bridges.....stayed up most of the night reading it and am still thinking about
it. The plot has wonderful twists and turns, the characters won my heart, and the teaching
the deaf controversy adds a thought-provoking counter-balance to the themes of love, loss,
and life being for the living. Ms. Averbach's uses words with real expertise -- just the right
amount of detail to create rich images, without boring the reader with too much detail. Love
the humor!!! There's only one thing I'd like to add to this book -- and that's a sequel!!!!
Painting Bridges reminded me of all that I have to be grateful for. When we ae in a depression, we cannot believe that there is a time when we will look forward to another day. Nor can we believe that someone we have never met,( a deaf child) can make us believe that we want to continue to live. How this evolved for the main character, made me
realize .....................Life is Good..........There is much that can give us the desire to live, even induced by someone who cannot converse with us, If we pay attention to our feelings, we can climb out of the water and begin to enjoy living.. Loved the book.
Dotti S.
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