Author: R.K. Smith
Description: Karen is beautiful and smart, but doesn’t understand some things others take for granted, such as many of the intricacies of communication. She reads self-help books, hoping to find the ‘rules’, as she calls them. In a college night school Creative Writing course her only friend takes her to, she produces several children’s stories about problem solving, thoroughly impressing the teacher with her knowledge and insight. He has already been bemused by her beauty, and has realized her apparent naivety results in total honesty with no pretence. In turn, she values his patience, understanding, encouragement and generally kind ways. Connection results. However, their son Alex focuses on her limitations, not her strengths, and finds growing up frustrating and embarrassing to the point of humiliation. When a crisis brings him back into her life as an adult, the passage of time and his adult perspective trigger a reversal of those negative views. As well, he develops insight into his own chequered relationships when he discovers her stories.
A simple and seemingly naïve suggestion from her proves to be the basis for a new life.
ISBN - 978-0-9780485-1-8
Publishing Date: December 2007
Length: 207 pages
Price: $14.95