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A gripping and unsettling portal into the life of a womanwho lives in many worlds, some wildly far from and some eerily near to our ownAs children we all had our imaginary friends and monsters inthe closet. But for Suzan Saxman, those friends and monsters didn't go away--andthey weren't imaginary.From an early age, Suzan knew instinctively that she had tohide her true self. She couldn't talk about the specters that haunted her,waking and dreaming. In bed with a childhood fever, rat-faced winged beingsguarded her; bullied and friendless at school, she ate lunch silently under thesteps of St. Theresa's with the ghost of a nun; paralyzed with fear, she wokeeach night to see a man with no eyes, watching her; and she kept watch at thewindow, every day, while her Daddy was at work and Steve, her real father, waswith her mother. It was the 1960s, suburban Staten Island, and she tried tohide it, tried to silence the spirits, ghosts, and demons, tried to be adaughter her mother could love. Like many memoirs, Suzan's is the story of amother and a daughter: of a mother who refused to accept both her strangelygifted daughter and her own personal buried secrets and of a daughter who grewmore and more isolated as she floated adrift in a family to which she did notfeel she belonged.Now, with Perdita Finn, Suzan tells the story of her journey,revealing and celebrating both the joy and terror, the fulfillment and sadnessof a life lived between worlds, the loneliness and power of seeing andunderstanding things no one else can.
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Suzan Saxman lives in Woodstock, NY, and runs a small shop called The White Gryphon Boutique and Studio. She is a lifelong vegetarian and passionate animal rights advocate. THE RELUCTANT PSYCHIC is her first book.
Perdita Finn is a writer whose books include the Time Flyers series. She and her husband are the founders of a non-denominational rosary fellowship in Woodstock, NY.
“This is a story of a dysfunctional family that could be almost any dysfunctional family, except for the ghosts, spirits, and demons.... As a compelling family drama, this strange spiritual memoir somehow works.” ―Booklist
“Suzan Saxman has done an exceptional job of penning an extremely interesting view of what it means to have genuine psychic abilities. I applaud Ms. Saxman for the courage and tenacity to tell her story...she is a woman of substance who tells it like she lived (and lives) it and affirms throughout the notion that there are NO coincidences in this life we live...a truly engaging memoir.” ―Feathered Quill Book Reviews
“Animal communicators have long fascinated me, so I began reading Suzan Saxman's memoir with pleasure. [This] gripping account... [is] a must read for anyone who's drawn to new ways of understanding animals and the world we share.” ―Best Friends Magazine
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- PublisherBlackstone Pub
- ISBN 10 1481520954
- ISBN 13 9781481520959
- BindingAudio CD
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