Pretty from a Distance

McCarrey, Cat

ISBN 10: 1479347272 / ISBN 13: 9781479347278

Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

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Synopsis:

In 1999, Glory Morgan is fast approaching her fortieth birthday. Her boyfriend Vince Cole controls every aspect of her life, but she remains bound to him because of his threats to harm her young niece. As they travel the country year after year in a camper with no water or electricity, her despair continues to grow, as does her alcohol use…until Vince unexpectedly gives her the opportunity to choose their summer destination. Emboldened, she picks a small town in New Mexico, a choice that will change the course of their lives dramatically.Encountering a vibrant community filled with eccentric characters including a Vietnam veteran, a psychic, and a man who had been abducted by UFOs, she finds herself falling in love with the local bartender Doug Baylor. Inspired to assert herself, Glory slowly sees hope and joy return to her life and begins to stand up to Vince. As tensions escalate and Vince finds a lover of his own, a shocking event irrevocably changes their world forever.Exploring the depths of abuse with compassion and honesty, McCarrey s debut novel is an intense, warmhearted, suspenseful story about the redemptive power of love and community. McCarrey deftly exposes the wounds of the past as these experiences play themselves out in our lives in a relentless pattern of symmetry until one seizes the power to actively change them. Wondrous, evocative, and full of inspiration, Pretty From A Distance is a deeply moving passage into the lives of people caught in an interweaving dance of dependency and control.

About the Author: Cat McCarrey, one of the author's pen names, moved to Wyoming from the New York metropolitan area at the age of twenty. Inspired by her love of the outdoors and an insatiable curiosity about the world and its inhabitants, she spent nearly five years traveling the country living in a van without running water or electricity. As well as having worked almost every service job imaginable, she studied psychology in college and graduate school. Ms. McCarrey lives in Wyoming, and now writes under three other pseudonyms.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Pretty from a Distance
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication Date: 2013
Binding: Paperback
Condition: New