In an Arkansas women's prison bathroom with her mother, girlchild Neicy scratches on the cold tile floor as activity in the adjacent stall establishes the emphatic sexuality that permeates her life. A successful actress in her forties, she is pretty, smart, caring, and committed to social justice, but still sexually self-destructive and confused about love and intimacy. When her promising Broadway career collapses, she plunges into a dark night of the soul. What is the value of worldly achievement measured against true self-worth? How does magnificent physical connection become conscious and lasting human union? Neicy's pain is tempered by friendships, faith, humor and grace. Everything edges to a riotous climax when she travels on a "transform or die" mission to her wise, dapper stepfather's seventy-ninth birthday party. Thoughtful, infused with spirituality, and inventive about how unconscious material seeps into everyday life, NEICY compels us to examine difficult sexual issues -- promiscuity, repression, abuse, powerlessness, and fear -- and points the way to enlightened sexual celebration.
- ISBN:
- 9780988360709
- 9780988360709
- Category:
- Contemporary fiction
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 20-10-2012
- Publisher:
- Aurelia Works
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 284
- Dimensions (mm):
- 203x133x16mm
- Weight:
- 0.33kg
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