Like a Woman
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.44 (664 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1938103246 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-01 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Wonderful storytelling and surprisingly high humor" according to Gail. Fasten your seat belts - this book flies. The main character, Taylor, has been ground and chucked through life. Amazingly, her sensitivity remains intact, aided by the canines and like-minded people she meets. This gal is gutsy, riding freights, tackling adversaries and handling abuse. Wonderful storytelling and surprisingly high humor. It's like the movie "Revenant" - when is this person going to climb out of the muck - we hold our breath and keep rooting for them. I want to read it again - flew through the boo. "Like A Woman" according to A customer. a sensitive, compelling and masterfully written read giving rare and authentic voice to kids who live mostly on the street and feeding compassion and understanding in the reader. Despite the horrific abuses Busman's heroic characters experience, these resourceful and creative children and teens somehow manage to carve out lives that also contain humor, love, and memorable relationships.. An Exquisitely Crafted Survival Story Pat Hanson, Ph.D. Review LIKE A WOMAN by Deb BusmanI just finished a novel by a colleague I thought I knew, a writing teacher extra-ordaire with whom I'd exchanged books promising each other an Amazon review. I vowed not to read anything written about LIKE A WOMAN before I wrote this.This is not a book, it is an exquisitely crafted epic piece of prose/poetry/stories filled with pain, grit, anger, disgust, and oppression, of one rough tough very bright street teen: Taylor and the characters she ‘grows up with’ with in
Like a Woman follows Taylor, a working class white girl too tough and too tender for her own good, who helps friends, rescues strays, and carries her battered copy of Ghandi on Non-Violence everywhere she goes. Edgar; and Dutch, a barrel-chested, flat butt old cowboy who eventually helps Taylor get off the streets.. She reads curled up in the sewer drain by Venice Beach under the shot-out flashing Chevron light, yet still fights at the drop of a dime, cuts johns who say the wrong thing, and steals anything she can get her hands on. Her girlfriend, Jackson, a young African-American street worker who lives in the back of a junk yard totaled limo, dreams of becoming a writer and receives daily guidance from her recently deceased mama. Joining them are fellow homeless street kids; high-end sex workers with Ph.Ds; Eddie, a b