The Tiki Room

A Powerful Poignant Memoir Of Lives Of Survival And Endurance Written With Strong Visual And Sensory Elements. The Award Winning Poet/Writer Nehassaiu Degannes Wrote: “Your Memoir Is Achingly Beautiful Exquisitely Written And Handled With Such Deftness And Depth It Most Certainly Demonstrates Patient Self-Reflection Mastery Of Craft And Form As Well As A Literary Tenderness. At Times The Level Of Remembered Detail The Sensory The Natural World---And Your Ability To Find A Language Capable Of Containing Your Internal Landscape In Sentences Which Flow As Naturally As Breath Is Quite Stunning. I Am In Admiration Of Your Work. I Am In Admiration Of Your Life.”. The Tiki Room Both Elegiac And Horrifying Chronicles The Inevitable Destruction Of My Family. The Reader Travels Back And Forth In Time With Intimations Of A Broader Construct Edging Into View. The Landscapes Are Stoic Small Town New Hampshire During The 1950’S Where I Lived With My Beloved Grandparents Life With My Mother In Phoenix Arizona During The Blossoming Of The 1960’S And My Husband'S Experiences In Bosnia. The Coalescence Of These Environments And Their Tragic Consequences Lead The Reader To Find Amazing Historic Roots In Our Conflicted Entwined Lives Which Have Found A Kind Of Peace In This World. We Have Survived And Lived To Tell Our Story This Is My Part Of That Vision Which I Have Chosen To Share With The World.