Autumn Cadence: A Novella Plus Nine

It is 1970 and Bree, a dreamer, is bummed that she is forced to live in a dormitory her sophomore year of college when she is so eager to meet "interesting" people and "taste" life. But as autumn's warmth and light slowly wane, it is through her relationships with the girls in the dorm, especially the black activist girl, Earledeen, and the confused boy, Clark, she meets in her Romantic Poetry class, she deepens her understanding of others and learns the world she seeks really was always there. This uneasy, unending grasping for something unknown and beyond the horizon is reflected in the other, wide-ranging stories included in the book. Stories about a girl who must decide how "dumb" she is going to be when she grows up and how children must choose what to honor and what to renounce when beginning a life different from their families; about one lawyer confronting the cruelty of the world in her first job and another discovering the world's indifference in a McDonald's. A middle-aged man tries to escape his stolid existence by joining a "new age" group and an old man wrestles with shadows. Resolute, with pain and revelation they carry and continue on.

• | Author: Jane M. Newby
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Oct 04, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 214 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1537684388
• | ISBN-13: 9781537684383