Bashed But Not Trashed

<p>Author Aphrodite Phoenix is a young-looking grandma. She's into healthy living and it's working. Her true age when told is amazing.</p><p> </p><p>But she also radiates the understanding you'd expect from someone who remembers exactly where she was the day JFK was gunned down. Or from the mother of a filmmaker who ran south with his camera to the mass grave in lower Manhattan on that morning. Or from the grandmother of the babies of a crackhead.</p><p> </p><p>Phoenix has been around.</p><p> </p><p>She's been a desperately poor single mother and then a thriving but persecuted sex worker.</p><p> </p><p>Her cheekbone has been fractured by a husband. Her trust has been betrayed by a lover. Members of her family have abused her. Professional liars have tricked her.</p><p> </p><p>But all of that has only been a hiccup.</p><p> </p><p>Because Phoenix lost her mother when she was a child and then she lost her child as a mother.</p><p> </p><p>It's all here from this vibrant ever bold Sixties Child with the will to stay upbeat and loving. Her narratives will move anyone no matter what age to say:</p><p><br>If she still loves life then I can.</p>