My Dead True Love
by Kim Pierce
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GENRE: Metaphysical & Visionary; Women's Friendships
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BLURB:
When a newspaper reporter’s fiancé dies
abruptly, she questions how he could just cease to be.
Dogged by unbidden thoughts, odd coincidences and
unexplained phenomena, Ann Stewart becomes obsessed with finding out what
really happens after we die and whether her beloved Gregory is still out there.
She finds her answer, which takes her and a close-knit coterie of women to the
edge of the cosmos—and the core of their own hearts.
Based on a true story.
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Excerpt One:
“It was definitely Gregory,” Connie declared, forcing
herself to return to the vision. “As clear as if he were standing next to me.
Smiling.”
“If you saw him”—and I still wasn’t believing—“did he see
you? Did he see me?”
It made no sense, but I had to know more.
“I don’t know. I tried to un-see him. I really did,” she
said, turning to me, something akin to terror twisting her face. “This ‘seeing’
is a part of me that triggers so much shame—and reactivates the trauma. Like
shell shock.” Red mottling crept up Connie’s neck and onto her cheeks.
She saw him. The words slid off my brain as if she were
speaking in tongues. What did that mean?
“Could it have been your imagination?” I offered wanly, not
wanting that to be the case.
“Yes, I suppose it could.”
Neither of us believed it.
I waited.
“What would it mean for you to ‘see’ him?” I pressed.
Tell me. Even if it makes no sense.
“That there’s something wrong with me,” came her acrid
reply. “Deeply, terribly wrong. At least that’s what my father would say. And a
lot of other people who make judgments about what I can do.” She slammed the car
into park a little too aggressively.
“There’s nothing wrong with you,” I said, getting out of the
car.
Connie shut down.
“I need to go home for a while,” she said.
Tell. Me. More.
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Review: Your plane just landed. You’re scanning the sea of passengers for the one face belonging to one true love. Then the gut-wrenching truth hits you square in the face: he died.
Ann’s world swirled around her. “There were no feelings. No feelings. No pain.”
But mostly Ann was in shock. After all, Gregory was the model of perfect health. How could he have had a heart attack? And how could this be classified as an “unexplained death?”
Death…what was death?
“Never’ is the mantra of grief: Never. Never. Never.”
The narrative was well-versed and easy to read. The words were emblems of strength and poetry. They were full of grief, emotion, and loss. Such power behind those words. Story takes the reader through a woman’s grieving process and personal obligation to the deceased. Although artistically rendered, at times, the progression can be rather slow. In fact, the whole thing was long and slow. It gets a little interesting when it would seem that Ann didn’t quite know Gregory as well as she thought she did.
But ultimately, the story traces the entire emotional baggage of the grieving process. Eventually, story takes on a philosophical approach as the main character tries to figure out if there was life after death. It’s mostly questions without answers. Story was certainly deep and thought-provoking. The literary prose was definitely 4-star quality, but, personally, I’m not that into philosophy and the read was too drawn-out for my taste. And that’s why I give this 3.5 stars. It’s good for the mass of readers, some of which may even get something out of this book.
Rating: 3.5 stars
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Kim Pierce is a former Dallas Morning News writer and editor who completed the Writer’s Path fiction program at Southern Methodist University. This is her first novel, inspired by events surrounding the death of her fiancé in 1998. She lives in Dallas, Texas, with her partner and three cats.
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