A Life APart

Claire Mueller is of the generation of Abzug Friedan and Steinem. She will tell you if you ask that her career presented itself without plan strategy. Chance she will say. It was chance and taking advantage of opportunities that presented themselves a solid work ethic and a vocabulary that leads people to think that she is smarter than she really is. That is what she believes.A Life APart tells Claire's story her journey from naïve daughter to world-damaged adult. It chronicles her career her friendship with Naomi an unconventional drug-dealing free-spirit who provides support and inspiration and her unconventional love affair with Viktor the soul-damaged East European war refugee who accompanies her on her final journey.Grounded in historical fact Claire's story is that of one woman working in the man's world of the 1950s and 1960s before feminism became a byword. It is a character study of Claire and those flawed authentic individuals who helped shape her life.