Betty Pack

Broschiertes Buch

The GNARA Girl

Book 1

Beschreibung

Welcome to the wonderful world of The Gnara Girl (a novel formerly known as The Cracker Jack Girl)-in this document, it begins with the Prologue on page 27; feel free to jump to the novel's beginning. The Gnara Girl, as we shall see, tells the story of Lynsey Ann Gerardi, age 87, an enduring Catholic, and her pals, family, and employees-all quite real people, during the first months of COVID-19. Talk a moment with Lynsey Ann and she will reluctantly admit to being "well to do," to having a food shopper and chef, an on-call driver when she goes out, and three happy and beaming cleaning ladies, Squad Two, available anytime she wishes, but she's quick to point out she owns the house cleaning company she uses. In fact, she owns several businesses of her own creation-small businesses-and will patiently explain the main one, Jitterbug Inc., is not a good-time dancehall, but is a simple service that provides safe, professional and reasonably-priced companions, or sitters, for elderly clients who want to stay in their own homes and avoid a nursing facility in their last days. Now it's her turn. Please understand, Lynsey is dying-well, we all are. And, of course, she is not dying right now, not today. Not of COVID. But she senses the triumphant time is at hand and she has debts to pay, some business to take care of before she exits this planet. Don't forget to get a copy of "The Gnara Girl: Book 2".

Autor

Betty Pack, a Texas writer, has been a high school English teacher, and sometime French teacher, for 20 years, an adjunct English teacher for two years at the Alamo Community College District-and she is a graduate school dropout in (Catholic) theology, after two years of evening classes (2005-2007) because they finally told her that her writing would never be academic enough and that, as a theologian, the only jobs available to her would be teaching or writing. Betty was, at that time, sick of teaching and had already been a fairly successful "secular" writer at a substantial salary, a prize-winning columnist-once being granted an award, a favorite of hers, for humor, of all things, a gift to remember on dark days. This award business was at the once Hearst-owned (now defunct) San Antonio Light newspaper. At the Light, she wrote three to four columns a week about anything or everything except city hall for seven years. During her time at the Light, she won, among other awards, the Texas State Headliner award, later rescinded because of questions about the originality of one of the three columns the company entered for her in the competition. Despite other prizes over the years, and awards, some just for being a (top) woman in journalism, she was laid off in a "staff reduction move" about a year prior to Hearst closing the Light and buying the city's competing newspaper.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Matchstick Literary
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 482g
• ISBN-13: 9781637901106
• ISBN-10: 1637901100
• Artikelnr.: 63706885