As They Are - Skoy, Phyllis M

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Résumé :
As They Are is a magnificent and meticulously-researched story of three generations of women and how the sufferings of one give shape to the challenges the next will endure. -Joan Schwighardt, author of RIVERS trilogy: Before We Died, Gifts for the Dead, and River Aria Generous and ingenious, Fatma wants to give her descendants a chance at a better life, one that bears more risk than she may take for herself. Fatma is born a child of rape, deep in the fairy cave dwellings of Cappadochia in the central Anatolia regions of Turkey. At the moment of her birth, Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk, future founder of the Republic of Turkey), is driving Allied forces from the Gallipoli peninsula. Set against the backdrop of Ataturk's sweeping changes, As They Are follows the story of a village girl struggling to become a woman as the decimated Ottoman Empire struggles to become a republic. Fatma aspires to become a journalist when her life is upended by the threat of blindness. She grapples with life-paralyzing depression that threatens her sanity after the birth of her first child. She must face the secrets that have undermined the truth about her life. As an elder, wise woman, Fatma is the nearly blind widow of a potter, running a small empire with her sons, leading a simple life in not-so-simple times. Yet one question remains: What would you sacrifice so that your descendants could live a better life?...

Biographie:
Phyllis M Skoy published her first short story Life Before which appeared as the Discovery of the Year in Bosque, 2013. In 2016, Ms. Skoy's first novel, What Survives, a novel about Turkey, was published by IP Books. What Survives was short listed for the Santa Fe Writers Project, was a finalist in the New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards and First Runner-Up in the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize Short List. In 2022, Black Rose Writing reissued What Survives and published the prequel, As They Are. A Coup, is the third book of A Turkish Trilogy. In Myopia, a memoir, published in 2017 (IP Books), Ms. Skoy describes what it was like to grow up with a refugee father still unknowingly consumed with the fears and struggles of his past....

Sommaire:
Phyllis M Skoy is the author of two novels set in Turkey, What Survives, and its prequel, As They Are. She is currently writing the third in the series, A Coup, to complete A Turkish Trilogy. She is also the author of Myopia, a memoir....