Pink Lemonade

A quintessential woman’s book Pink Lemonade chronicles a six-decade journey through the arts using the stepping stones of poetry drawing short stories and essays to navigate difficult pathways. Along the way the author introduces us to some fascinating women from shy Martha Brown the Campbell family laundress to Sister Stanisia an accomplished artist/nun who doesn’t know where babies come from. Other characters portrayed are Kara Winston a young mother who finds the courage to return to college in an unlikely place; Ellie an attractive middle-aged divorcee undergoing sterilization; and Elizabeth an older married women who is forced to let go of a loved one twice.Divided into six chapters illustrated by the author Pink Lemonade offers hope to anyone struggling with unexpressed feelings of sadness powerlessness or anger. Samantha Adams demonstrates through her own experiences how the arts especially those with spiritual underpinnings enabled her to transform life’s tragedies into triumphs.