Glory Be

Glory Be is a story about the unique and enduring relationship of identical twin girls who become lost to each other at age thirteen when one of them gets caught up in a life with a gangster. To protect him she abandons her connection to her twin. Glory and Bea are born in the middle of a hurricane their birth assisted by their great-grandmother Gram Stela a midwife from Romania. Gram raises the girls and shares her talents and Gypsy skills with them until she dies suddenly when the twins are thirteen. The girls have a special relationship common to identical twins: throughout their childhood they communicate by reading each other's minds. So even though they have to fend for themselves after Gram's death at least they have each other-until Glory disappears and closes her mind to Bea. Despite being told that Glory must be dead Bea knows Glory is still alive somewhere and searches for her for twenty-two years. She finds Glory living in northern California in a small down-home western town non-descript except for one novel feature: a secret establishment known to participants as The Orgasm Parlor. A freak accident at the town's annual Easter Parade gives Bea the clue that allows her to locate Glory and the twins are finally reunited. A funny and inventive story that takes the reader right up to the edges of American surrealism. Stephen Scheuerman Poet and retired Professor Boston University Writing Center. A poignant and fanciful tale with unexpected twists and turns in the adventures of identical twins Glory and Bea along with a cast of hilariously dysfunctional characters. Clare Newbury author of The Mushroom Circle: A fairy Tale for Giants