Título: The Reluctant Psychic: A Memoir
Autor: Suzan Saxman, Perdita Finn
Sinopse: We all, as children, saw imaginary friends and heard monsters in the closet. But for Suzan Saxman, those friends and monsters didn't go away, and they weren't imaginary. They were the dead who came to her from the time she was a little girl with urgent messages for the living. Raised in a house filled with secrets, she saw and spoke the truth as soon as she could talk, alarming the nuns in her convent school with her revelations and terrifying her own mother with her strange visions. Each night she woke to see a man with no eyes watching her, and each day she kept watch by the window while her father was at work and Steve, her real father, a swarthy drifter, rendezvoused with her mother. It was the 1960s in suburban Staten Island and she tried to hide it all, and be a daughter her mother could love.
Always skeptical of her tremendous gift, she struggled to come to terms with her calling even as she revealed the destinies of everyone, from housewives to hit men, stockbrokers to rock-and-rollers. She could witness everyone's future, everyone's but her own. Why was she visited by angels and demons? Could she ever escape this strange fate? Where was her own soul mate?
Now Suzan tells the story of her journey and tries to make sense of her family's buried secrets. Through powerful readings of others' destinies interwoven with compelling narrative, a reluctant psychic emerges from the shadows.
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “The Reluctant Psychic: A Memoir”, de Suzan Saxman, Perdita Finn, publicado pela editora St. Martin's Griffin, em 2016 e com 352 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: St. Martin's Griffin
Páginas: 352
Ano: 2016-02-02
Edição: Reprint
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1250079349
ISBN13: 9781250079343
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora St. Martin's Griffin trazem narrativas que transitam entre o cotidiano íntimo e grandes temas, com personagens frequentemente em momentos decisivos de suas vidas. O catálogo permite ao leitor encontrar histórias que variam do romance contemporâneo, com conflitos pessoais e segredos em pequenas cidades, até aventuras históricas recheadas de tensão e ambientações marítimas. Também há espaço para obras que exploram o fantástico, misturando romance, mistério e elementos sobrenaturais, além de títulos que abordam temas de saúde, biografias e culinária, sempre com uma linguagem acessível e ritmo que privilegia o envolvimento emocional e a clareza.
