By
Rea Nolen Martin
The
characters: Sidney, a fifteen-year-old girl dying from an undisclosed illness
which requires chemotherapy and multiple doses of anesthesia; her mother,
Mitzy, who needs an anesthesia all her own as well as the help of her psychic, Pandora; Hanna, her aunt, also going through personal
traumas and an almost-failed marriage and Pandora, Mitzy’s psychic who has no
idea why she’s so affected by Sidney, a girl she’s never met, but feels like she’s
known for decades.
These
four women find worlds in common, not knowing why or how.
Sidney
has learned to cope with her illness and treatment through a game she calls
“The Anesthesia Game.” She picks a location, tells her nurse and then must give
details when she comes out of the treatment. But---is it really a game, or is
there more to it? What is fantasy and what is reality?
Are
Mitzy, Hanna and Pandor merely trying to save Sidney? Or, are they trying to
save the universe from a catastrophe that started centuries ago.
Well-drawn
characters in this intense, sometimes funny, sometimes sad and always
poignant journey into the lives of four women, all with their own issues, but
all after the same goal---to save Sidney.
See on Amazon.com (also on Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter.)
Patricia
A Guthrie
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