Housekeeping

by Crystal LeMar

Overview

Living life how you dreamt as a kid? Fulfilling your desires in love, life, and career, and on your own terms? Yes, then don't read this book, write one. Feeling a growing realisation and resignation that your life is merely enabling the dreams of others to come true? Your greatest efforts and deepest sufferings having no more impact than those of a nonspeaking extra in somebody else's six-season melodrama? Yes, read on, get ready to be inspired by, and learn from, the magnificent failures and catastrophic successes of someone like you, Crystal LeMar. Grasp her hand, discover together how the tiniest of steps in the right direction can, if you let them, create gigantic shifts in your confidence, mindset, and future. You're seconds away, take that first step, take the life you deserve and foretold.

Moralities will be tainted, and reputations stained. A provocative novel that questions family values, expectation & ambition. Two souls are chained. Hers, submissively at the peripheries. His, straining wildly at the forbidden core of the extraordinary. Divergent lives that one day meet in a convergent search for purpose & unconditional love.

'Housekeeping' rips the sheets off the Crystal LeMar story. Intimately revealing how the unlikeliest of heroines, and heroes, penetrated deep within a suppressive society, ironically to find liberty. A voyeuristic journey of reinvention, obsession, and broken boundaries that all will relate to, few will take.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940186724667
Publisher:	Housekeeping
Publication date:	06/07/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Craig Lee is the author behind Crystal LeMar and the novel ‘Housekeeping’. He’s a proud coal miner’s son, father, husband and urban thinker. He discovered art at an early age and eagerly set about using it to reimagine and illuminate his small-town life. Drawing became an escape from the loneliness and the heavy realities of being an only child of a loving, yet hard-working family within a struggling community. That passion for storytelling later taking him around the world to help cities and neighborhoods reimagine themselves. A privilege he holds dear.

As a debut author, his work takes energy from the same inequalities that first confronted his formative years. Experiences that taught him the value of identifying shared feelings and seeing things differently, through other’s eyes. Empathy. Understanding what moves people, has moved him to write. Airport terminals, planes, trains and hotel foyers are where he writes best. Public non-spaces between worlds. Globally scattered anonymous platforms to somewhere else that help him conceive and collide entire worlds. Neutral places to build a rapport with his characters, to understand their demons, charms and primal motives. A unique connection between character and author he believes builds a ‘sincerity of autonomy’ in each, and ultimately the story itself.

You’d be correct in thinking he loves crafting emotive landscapes and spaces for his readers to immerse themselves in, to feel, smell and explore. Streets, buildings, rooms, down to the tiniest artefacts are characters in their own right. Designed to tempt, excite and confront whoever enters. Inspiring him most though is the liberation the word can wield to reinvent real lives. He’s never happier than when delicately painting, layer on layer, word on word, wonderfully flawed and complex heroines and heroes who’ll challenge their world whilst moving you to reimagine yours.