The Tempering Seasons - Hardcover

Wright-Abraham, Irene H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0967146216 ISBN 13: 9780967146218

Publisher: I^J Publishing, 1999

People and Communities can be forged with strength in their upward struggle as Rachel Bradford and the City of Garland learn in The Tempering Seasons.

Rachel's life is marked with the adversity of life and death trauma in a steel mill, a tobacco company strike, and a flood that devastates the community, while she agonizes in a marriage to a steeworker who fears the mill.

Although she gains stature as a civic volunteer and real estate entrepreneur, Rachel secretly credits the achievements to her mentor and lover, Douglas Hodge.

Her passionate, consuming love affair with Hodge continues during his rise to prominence as a state legilator.

But her financial sucess triggers the ire of her envious sister, Alice, until Rachel finds herself battling to break free of her sister's control.

The Tempering Seasons also is the story of Garland's people: "Hooper" Young, the black mill worker who strives to become a leader in the community and endures the constant threat of racial prejudice and violance; fragile Tina Rose Barnes, who questions life's disappointments; and Glenn McIntire, the tavern owner who blames the city for robbing him of his family heritage.

This is a book about strife, tension, stress and sex, all occurring over the space of 50 years in a typical town in southwest Ohio.

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From the Publisher:

Irene H. Wright-Abraham, a reporter for 25 years with The Cincinnati Enquirer and the newspaper's first female bureau chief, excels in the writing of The Tempering Seasons, her second published book. She has received many awards for her newspaper writing, and is a former president of the Ohio Newspaper Women's Association as well as the Ohio Professional Writers.

From the Author:

I have lived in several states including Tennessee, where my mother worked on the Manhattan Project during the Second World War. However, most of my life has been spent in the general area of Middletown-Cincinnati, Ohio, over a 50-year period. Most of my career was as a newspaper reporter and it exposed me to the tempering effect on people that adversity can produce. As tempering hardens steel, so can people emerge tempered from the trials of life.

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