The Black Spot

by Linda M

Overview

Linda can "see" bad things that will happen to those closest to her, including death, but nothing warns her of her own misfortunes.  Her mother suffers from serial promiscuity and social drunkenness, always wanting to be the perfect wife and mother, but alternates between beating dark secrets out of Linda and beating sense into her.  Her father is a Lothario, who suffers from the handicaps of voluntary alcoholism and financial incompetence, but loves animals and at least one of his four children.

Readers who enjoyed Jenny Lawson's side-splitting, Furiously Happy and Jeanette Walls' brilliant memoir of struggle and hardship, The Glass Castle, should enjoy the snarky humor and moving testimony about a triumphant coming to terms with her own "backstory".  Linda seeks to laugh at the darkness and know she is loved--isn't that part of everyone's struggle?

Product Details

BN ID:	2940163705023
Publisher:	LINDA M
Publication date:	09/04/2019
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	371 KB

About the Author

My memoir recounts with snark, humor, and naked honesty how, as a little girl, I carried my parents' shame, encased in fear, believing if anyone learned the truth about us, they would use it against me.  An iron will to succeed grew within me, and in adulthood, I began to find my voice and prospered in the hard-wired testosterone of the political world.  My dysfunctional family, like so many others, will amuse you at times, but it isn't all fun and games.  I spent many years wondering if my story would speak to people and upon reading Jenny Lawson’s side-splitting, Furiously Happy about her personal history with depression, and Jeanette Walls' brilliant memoir, The Glass Castle, I decided to finish what I started over ten years ago.

I have been told my life is a moving testament to human resilience and astonishing outcomes, but I think there are many of us who live in a vast field of unnamed offenses, who have not merely survived but succeeded happily.  Mine is not a pity story, but what I hope will constitute an opening for constructive dialogue about issues that are still off limits, in a time when people will remark on just about anything, often without regard to civility, yet remain silent on issues affecting so many.

Endless thanks to successful author Joshua Mohr, who gave me the ultimate compliment saying, “Linda, it made me laugh when I didn’t think I should, and it made me weep,” before starting on my journey to making my mess breathe.  I would never have made it without his initial take and his demanding requests to improve it.