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Overview

Twenty years ago, Anna Hott thought she could control everything — her crumbling marriage, her demanding children, her hectic life — by quitting her high-placed job in New York City and moving her family to tranquil Sanibel Island, Florida. But she brought her untamed emotions, her rage toward her cheating husband, and her yearning to write a novel with her. When her husband and children left the house for a week, Anna thought at last she would get her household, her novel, and her mind in order. Instead, her elderly neighbor Fedelina Aurelio knocked on her door bearing flowers and homespun wisdom, and when Fedelina's recently divorced son arrived, Anna had a test of passions and a test of truth. Now, at 56 with an empty nest, Anna Holt pulls out the incomplete manuscript she started that memorable week and — to find closure for her life and a conclusion for her novel — travels to Indiana to visit Fedelina who lives in a nursing home.

A novel framed within a novel, Sand In My Eyes is both a story about the tension between motherhood and personal dreams as well as a story about women across generations inspiring one another to let beauty persist despite ugly circumstances.

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Christine Lemmon is the author of a series of superbly written novels with the theme of women struggle to realize their true potential. "Sanibel Scribbles" (9780971287419, $14.95) is the story of Vicki Brightman, her best friend Rebecca, a six-month journey to another country, a roster of colorful characters, and the unexpected demands that compel equally unexpected changes in one's life. Set in 1953 era Florida, "Portion Of The Sea" (9780971287457, $14.95), is the complex story of 15-year-old Lydia Isleworth, who meets Marlena DiPluma, an aspiring Hollywood actress who give Lydia her journal and admonishes that Lydia is capable of accomplishing anything that she wants to achieve. "Sand In My Eyes" (9780971287471, $14.95) is the story of Anna Hott, who leaves her high-pressure life, failing marriage, and demanding children behind when she moves from New York City to Sanibel Island, a barrier island off of Florida's Gulf Coast where life is lived at a very different pace and enables her. Very highly recommended for community library contemporary fiction collections and personal leisure time reading lists, all three novels document Christine Lemmon as a gifted writer with a very special flare for creating memorable characters with extraordinary stories of their own.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780971287426
  • Publisher: Penmark Publishing NC
  • Publication date: 7/1/2010
  • Pages: 355
  • Sales rank: 396,890
  • Product dimensions: 5.90 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 0.80 (d)

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  • Anonymous

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    blah

    I only made it a few chapters. Very simplistic.

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  • Posted September 30, 2010

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    a perfect cross-generational inspirational book for all women

    Sand in My Eyes is a story about difficulties and stress of motherhood, and how personal dreams get placed on hold when children come into a marriage. I love how the author interweaved the meanings of flowers into stories of everyday life. I will never look at an orchid the same: " there are more varities of orchids than any other flower in the world., and you've got to know what type of variety you are dealing with in order to care for it properly..and like orchids,one must be aware of whom she is before she can flourish". So women are like orchids, not Venus! But I think the best quote was at the end: "not everyone can have a green thumb, that's why God invented wildflowers".

    It is a perfect cross-generational inspirational book for all women. It is the perfect book to give your daughter when she gets married- there are so many truths in the letters from Fedelina's mother, that I know I want to write down for my daughter, with additional stories from our family. Read this book with your mother and make a family album of stories of motherhood/womanhood/love- it will inspire you and your mother!

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  • Posted September 20, 2010

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    Sand in my Eyes brought Tears to mine! Great Read!

    Fairly early in Anna's marriage,she discovers that her husband has had an affair.Believing that a change of scenery will help,she quits her high power publishing job and moves her family to Florida,to a house on stilts.She has always wanted to write a novel and figures now is a good time to start. New to the stay-at-home-scene she is overwhelmed by the demands of twin boys and a little girl.Feeling like all she does is clean the house,feed,or change the kids,or grab some much needed sleep,her novel isn't a priority. "All I wanted was to finish an act from start to finish without interruption,so I set the egg I wanted to fry on the counter and steadily walked to the sink,trying hard to block out the noise hitting me from every direction.To an ordinary person,washing a pan is simple.But for a mother,who is also like a ringmaster in a three-ring circus,doing dishes is more hair-raisingly difficult than swallowing fire." ... "You can do it,"I chanted under my breath,trying hard to be the little engine that could."You can make it through this day."At least I thought I could,thought I could,thought I could.There was nothing I wanted more this very moment than to become an escape artist and disappear,but then I saw from the corner of my eye the egg I was going to make for my children's breakfast,the only egg in the house,the extra large one sitting on the counter,roll to the edge and take a great fall.I dropped to my knees,trying to save old Humpty,but hard as I might,he slipped through my fingers."(Sand in My Eyes, p44) I think that gives you a good picture as to Anna's state of mind.I know that I have been at this point before.It is actually this scene that sort of sets up the rest of the book.Anna's husband is leaving on a business trip,so he arranges for his parents to come and pick up the kids for a week.He doesn't really get why Anna can't get everything done with the kids there,but I think he doesn't really trust her to leave the kids alone with her. Anna decides that this is the week to start her novel.So she does.She gets a lot of inspiration from her next door neighbor,Fedelina Aurelio,a geriatric gardener who shares with her much wisdom about life as it relates to flowers.She also meeds Fedelina's professor-son Liam and we learn about yearning and love lost.But I am leaving out an important part.We are learning all of this 20 years later,as she has gone to visit Fedelina in a nursing home,to share with her the novel that she has actually spent the last 20 years writing.The one she started the week she was home alone. So you see,it is actually a story within a story.We learn all about Anna and Fedelina and the relationship that developed between them 20 years ago.But we also see the stage of life they are now in, and how their relationship has changed.Fedelina had shared with Anna letters from her mother Cora which she had written to her daughter over the years.As Anna lost her mother when she was in college, I believe that both Fedelina and Cora's letters served as a surrogate to her.They made it into her book, so they were definitely an inspiration to her. I loved the way that whenever she felt stressed she would throw in children's rhymes.It gave the story a little whimsy.I enjoyed this book very much as I could relate to Anna so well.There was so much inspirational, but not sappy, stuff in the book that I wanted to write down so I would remember it. The ending was a complete surpris

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  • Posted September 20, 2010

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    Are you doing what makes you truly happy?

    This book is kind of hard to describe. It is a "story within a story". Anna Hott is a woman in her mid-fifties who is reflecting back on her life twenty years prior, of the week she had all to herself, where she began writing her novel. When life intruded upon her again, the novel got tossed in a drawer, never to be seen again. At the opening of this book, Anna is on her way to see her old neighbor, Fedelina, who inspired Anna to write that story so many years ago. Anna is looking for an ending to her story, and to reconnect with the woman who changed her life. Fedelina is living in a nursing home in Indiana and when the two women reconnect, Anna begins reading her story to Fedelina, looking for approval from the woman on whom this story is based. The reader is taken back in time, twenty years earlier, to when Anna is an overwhelmed mother of three, caring for her three young children, taking care of a household, and stumbling through the after-effects of her husband's affair. She is on the verge of a complete breakdown when her husband heads out of town on a business trip and sends the children to stay with his parents for a week, giving Anna some much needed time and space to confront her emotions and figure out who she is and who she wants to be. With a quiet house, Anna begins pursuing one of her lifelong dreams - writing a novel. When she meets her elderly neighbor, Fedelina, Anna's outlook on life changes completely. Fedelina gives Anna sage wisdom on life from raising her own seven children, with gardening metaphors that carry throughout the novel. The story is broken out in sections. "Belvedere" is the present in which Anna and Fedelina are in the nursing home; most of the story is the reading of Anna's manuscript to Fedelina; and there are several sections from the early 1900s with Cora, Fedelina's mother, sharing her life's wisdom with her own daughter (these are also part of Anna's manuscript). These characters are rich, complex, and deeply formed. You can feel their emotions leaping off the page. I was instantly drawn into their story, taking meaning from their lives and applying it to my own. There is much to think about in reading this novel and it can easily be transferred to your own life. Are you doing what makes you truly happy? A few things that bothered me: although this book is 355 pages, I felt that the ending wrapped up too quickly and I didn't like it! I kind of felt cheated as a reader. Also, the story seemed to move very slowly at times and I had to force myself to keep reading, because I just wanted to get through it. Finally, there were so many editing errors that it drove me a bit crazy! (i.e. lashlight instead of flashlight; loose instead of lose). I hate finding errors like these in a book because it really detracts from my enjoyment of it. There were also many hyphenated words that I didn't get - i.e. sup-posed. I'm not sure if the completed novel just didn't translate correctly into a printed, bound copy, but this was all through the novel and really bugged me. Overall, this is a wonderful story and gave me lots to think about. The characters are rich and deep and I'm sure many of you could find a little bit of yourself in Anna.

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  • Posted August 25, 2010

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    LOVED LOVED LOVED - Must read

    LOVED, LOVED, LOVED this book. I loved it so much it is going on my top 10 list. I can't tell you all how much I related to the characters in this book. So many of the scenes I pictured me instead of Anna (crying on the kitchen floor). The relationship of the characters and how they develop throughout the story was beautiful. The lessons learned and advice from sweet Fedelina through the talk of gardening and flowers was fabulous. I can't explain how much the book touched me. I think everyone should pick up a copy and read it. Oh how I wish for a friend like Fedelina. I know my review is not doing this book justice.you have to read it for yourself. Put it on your MUST READ list today.

    Check out my blog www.seasidebooknook.blogspot.com for an interview with the author

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  • Posted August 4, 2010

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    Poignant story.

    Sand in My Eyes is a poignant story about an overwhelmed mother, Anna, who is bitter and stressed because her life wasn't turning out the way she had hoped it would. She meets a neighbor who is an elderly woman and learns a lot from her, which Anna decides to write into a novel. This story is women's fiction and has some twists in it that are sometimes disappointing, and other times quite gratifying. It is hard to write a review without giving away a spoiler or two so I'll do my best without being too vague. I'll start with how I felt while reading the story.

    It started out with rather slow pacing, and the writing was not the best. By that I mean that the prose was sort of flowery and meandering. However, once I was caught up into the story itself, I barely noticed that. Plus, I think as the story picked up pace the writing was cleaner. The formatting was bad, though. Sometimes middle sections of paragraphs were indented and words were hyphenated in the middle of a page. It seemed like someone had changed the spacing so the words were no longer where they were supposed to be. That was a bit distracting.

    Regarding her anger towards her husband, part of me understood it and part of me was like, "Come on, honey, if you want him to love you back then you can't ignore him and keep him on the couch every night." I admired that he stayed with her all that time. At the same time I understood her lack of trust, having gone through something similar myself many years ago. Yet when the chance to be happy came along, she said no, even though she wanted to say yes. This emotional back and forth was the thing that I found the most powerful in this story. I really felt like I understood her. I also identified with her longings and fears as a writer, because I am an author myself.

    What surprised me most was that she didn't see that she was in some ways the same as her husband. Neglect in marriage and contempt toward one's spouse breeds pain that often attracts married couples to people outside of their union. I was hoping she'd see the connection and at least empathize with her husband. At the same time, the dog went back to his vomit even when a sincere effort on her end finally took place. While not surprised, I felt bad for her. Did she have regrets for trying to make things work? She never said (that I can recall anyway.) Nevertheless, the ending was satisfying. People who enjoy reading stories about personal and emotional growth and different stages in a woman's life will enjoy this book. Once I got into the story, I had a hard time putting it down, which is why I rated it four stars.

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  • Posted July 8, 2010

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    Compelling

    This is the story of a woman losing herself amidst the chaos of her life as a mother of 3 young children, then finding a new version of herself that she is comfortable with. Her journey is taken in part through conversations with her elderly neighbor, who compares a woman's life to flowers and the nurturing of a garden. I was captivated from beginning to end. I loved the flower analogies, the relaxed writing style, and the characters. The tidbits of knowledge sprinkled within the pages had me nodding my head in agreement. Anna Hott's journey is one that many women can relate to and learn from.

    ** This book has some minor editing issues and quite a lot of formatting problems (indents where they don't belong, dialogue strung together on the same line, rather than separated with each speaker, etc.). However, I rated this on the writing and my enjoyment of the story and ignored those issues. If these are things that bother you, be forewarned. **

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