Becoming Sharon

<p> Nineteen eighty-one was the year that fractured the mosaic of my life and set in motion its reconstruction shard by shard. -Trin McCormick</p><p> It is 1950 when Sharon Theresa McCormick called Trin is first challenged by childhood polio and the constraints of her Boston Irish Catholic upbringing. As her coming-of-age journey unfolds Trin proves to be a classic survivor overcoming every barrier in her search for love and identity.</p><p> At first tentative and shy Trin meets and interacts with many muses who serve as catalysts for personal growth. The first is Bobby Newcomb a childhood bully who summons a power she did not know she possessed. Brushing aside the aftereffects of polio as irrelevant to living a full life she steps into young adulthood in 1968 a turning point in America's history that leads her down a new path toward Stanley Hylton a brilliant Black student who challenges her naive thinking. In midlife both her marriage and her fragile self-image are threatened by Jeff Stone the romantic younger man who nearly destroys her.</p><p> In her adventures and misadventures Trin reflects every woman's life facing heartbreak midlife crisis and a hard-won resurrection. In a lyrical voice that is often humorous and self-mocking Trin McCormick invites the reader to share her seven-decade quest for adventure love and everything in between occasionally in the arms of unsavory lovers. <em>Becoming Sharon</em> unfolds a life that is both ordinary and extraordinary.</p>