The Unusual LivesL Subjugation
- Publisher
- NOBLE GRAY PRESS
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2023
- Category
- Literary, Family Life
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781990070891
- Publish Date
- Feb 2023
- List Price
- $9.99
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Gina is born into hardship. Her upbringing is as brutal as it is dramatic, leading her to become a determined being. She sees some success in her early adulthood, yet her surroundings prey on her weaknesses driving her mad. Gina struggles through most of her adulthood, gets married, has children, yet none of that makes her life better. She gets two more chances at starting with a clean slate, but both fail. She eventually succumbs to the brutality of the very person who she once saw as her saviour.
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Contributor Notes
Lana Guzman, MBA is an entrepreneur with two decades of academic and business writing and research experience. This is her fourth short novel in the series, along with The Unusual Lives: A Victim(izer); The Unusual Lives: A Fool(er); and The Unusual Lives: An Evil(doer). Her other works include two full-length, professional books in The Get-It-Done series: The Get-It-Done Business Plan: Write a Business Plan That Will Get Your Business Financed and The Get-It-Done CV: Create a CV That Will Land You Your Dream Job and short stories as part of eight fiction series. She lives in Toronto with her family.
Excerpt: The Unusual LivesL Subjugation (by (author) Lana Guzman; photographs by Edgar Guzman)
Gina was born in summer, when even in the coldest places the trees have woken up from the lethargy of the snowy winter, and the flowers tease and delight the eye, as if they were telling you: "come, smell me and let us celebrate the feast of sun and colour". She always loved summer, even since she could remember herself. Summer was the time of school vacations; later - the time of vacations at work. Summer was always a delight, a get-away, a happy time. A time to get out and to fill her lungs with the wonderful, warm, flowery summer air, and, most of all, be happy no matter what.
She was born to an alcoholic mother, who, at the best of times, neglected her. In the worst of times, she would slap her. Gina grew up knowing that if she did not get away from her mother on time, she would be slapped no matter what, when or why. Her mother had serious mental conditions, several of those to be precise, which were neither properly diagnosed, nor treated, nor even considered to be some kind of a nuisance to anyone. If she herself was a nuisance, she too got beaten.