Charon's Daughter

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>Why read this book?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>In these pages if you dare to look you will meet and get to know a very unusual woman who will change or challenge how you look at the world and even your own life.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>Shannon competes at the highest and most intense levels in traditional male enterprises. Yet throughout she remains very womanly lustful loyal humorous nurturing and competent human being who also loves men.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>The mid-19th century our American setting for Shannon's adventures was overtly very sexist and racist. Today legislation has repressed most overt sexism and racism and yet traces linger in our souls. The people around Shannon struggle with life and self as much as we do. Shannon's struggle for recognition and self-fulfillment amid hand-to-hand combat leading life­-on-the-line battles with cannon and sabers and intense sexual encounters is both rejected and embraced by all levels of society yet drives her growth as a fine strong woman.</span></p>