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