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Her Apparitions & Other Human Longings: Lisa Furtado is a talented writer. She’s created an exceedingly interesting and powerful work that presses the ... a way that it is both unique and affecting. - Softcover
Based on a True Story Expanded & Updated 2nd Edition Written by: Lisa Furtado Editor: Trista Di Genova Text & Cover Copyright© Lisa Furtado Published June 11, 2011 Lisa Furtado's HER APPARITIONS & OTHER HUMAN LONGINGS focuses on the psychological responses of Fatima, a young high school graduate from the American Midwest and the daughter of a distant American military commander who senses failure in her search for meaning. Fatima discovers at an early age the hollowness at the core of her parents' self-denial and aspires to something more genuine. She is elated by the news of being accepted to an Ivy League University, only to find out that her family is gravely in debt and that she will not be able to follow her dream. Against her parents' wishes she escapes her small town and moves out to the city where she attempts to pay for her education independently. Soon she finds herself working as a part time sales woman, relying on food banks and becomes involved in an abusive relationship. Due to her brother Azel's tragic death, she returns home to the American Midwest for his funeral. Soon afterward, she meets his art teacher Laurence, who is twenty years older, and she is convinced that she has found her soul mate. Desperate to see him again, she later leaves America to look for him while he is backpacking across Asia. Spanning three continents and an entire history of caste, class exile and dislocation, Apparitions and Other Human Longings is an exploration of the deceitful bargains that make up an identity. Her search begins amidst the emptiness of an unnamed American city, moves to a rewarding career as an orphanage caretaker in Cambodia and, finally, to a decaying British colony in India where she finds joy she will then be forced to betray. Atheists, bigots, angels, and a cast of believers and Jungian archetypes dramatize throughout this coming of age allegory. Fatima is disillusioned by the American dream that was originally about freedom and the pursuit of happiness. But how does Fatima create meaning in a world of moral decay? Fatima tells her story while being committed into a mental hospital in Ho Chi Min, Vietnam during the 1980's based on a true story. "Lisa Furtado is a talented writer. She’s created an exceedingly interesting and powerful work that presses the idea of identity from cross cultural encounters in a way that it is both unique and affecting." (Review: Lynn Baer) "Lisa Furtado’s debut novel is a gripping account of one woman’s valiant attempt to change the world for the better, but whose fundamentally optimistic nature is darkened and eventually overcome by a combination of self-imposed starvation, drug experimentation and sudden penury while on the path of self-realization in Southeast Asia. Fatima’s extreme empathy for war victims and the downtrodden of the world spurs the feverish invention in her mind of angels, apparitions and hallucinations, representing our conscience as a society and ultimately the heroine’s downfall. Both a disturbing and uplifting story, this tale has no end of surprising turns, and unveils the mysteries in a human heart and soul desperately striving for world peace." (Review: Lone Wolf Press) The details are so thorough, so intimate, so graphic, so sensory. Lisa Furtado has drawn a lot from personal experience rather than the kind of flat writing that draws from other readings or from "TV" experience.
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Fatima is an artfully bedraggled young woman who strikes out on her own in the wild world, hoping to re-unite with Laurence, an American married world-class photographer twice her age who is working in Saigon. While obsessively looking for this man she finds herself in never-ending, surreal backpacking adventures throughout several countries in Asia. Along the way she falls for the traps in ‘free choices’ and winds up in a mental hospital where Laurence and Fatima, a beautiful schizophrenic are joined in an experience that will haunt them forever... Fatima is disillusioned by the American dream that claims freedom and the pursuit of happiness. But how does Fatima create meaning in a world of moral decay? Fatima tells her story over the course of a year while she is being rehabilitated in a mental institution. Both a disturbing and uplifting story, this tale has no end of surprising turns, and unveils the mysteries in the human spirit. Lisa Furtado lives in Taiwan with her husband Charlie and rescued doberman, Sepata. Lisa Furtado was born in Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Her parents immigrated to Canada in the 1960's from Sao Miguel, Azores in Portugal. Lisa is the sister of Nelly Furtado who is a grammy award winning song writer. Lisa Furtado was an English teacher for 8 years in Southern Taiwan before she began writing. Lisa Furtado is a radio host, screen play writer, fashion business owner, humanitarian and reiki/kundalini yoga teacher. She has also received the Casa Dos Azores award recognizing her debut novel, Her Apparitions & Other Human Longings. She has won several awards, such as the Tom Perry Award for Social Responsibility for her volunteer work towards orphans in Africa and AIDS/HIV projects.
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1463590369
- ISBN 13 9781463590369
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages216
- EditorGenova Trista Di
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