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For Those About to Rock . . .
I never intended to wait this long. Over two years have passed since the publication of Seeing Pink. Life has . . . expanded since then, grown, rewritten
itself so that sometimes I can't keep up without a ready translator. Most of the good stuff, I'm sure, is lost in the exchange.
Be that as it may, I found myself periodically haunted by a pair of photographs I'd once seen, two snapshots of four girls, the first of which was taken
when those girls had braces on their teeth and gum in their eight-year-old mouths. The second was taken ten years later.
I kept seeing those photos and in my seeing I realized that entire sagas stand between the two, that lives become
sometimes interlocked, so that the soul-strings of one resonate when the others are strummed.
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Plot Synopsis
Driving across the Arizona desert, Sally Jasper collides with a man who sprints suddenly out of the sand and across the highway. The man—an illegal Mexican immigrant—is killed upon impact. Haunted by a rising ghost of guilt, Sally vows to set things right again. She soon learns that the dead man was being chased, and the gang of vigilantes who were pursuing him are as dangerous as they are unpredictable. Sally realizes she has something in common with the dead stranger: a yearning for freedom.
This desire leads her to form an unlikely rock-n’-roll band which she uses as a front to conceal her perilous plan to smuggle a Mexican family across the border. But her task is complicated by her budding romance with an Immigration officer. . . .
The deeper she lets this man into her life, the closer he gets to the truth. Her days become a minefield, where one misstep will cost her everything she holds dear. And if that weren’t enough, a group of so-called patriots is scouring the area for signs of unlawful aliens; their justice is cruel and swift. Sally and her friends come into direct contention with these armed bigots, and as their popularity as musicians grows, so does the enmity between them and the men who would expose their Mexican stowaways.
Fugitive Shoes is a story of three women’s efforts to let go of the past, to find unexpected love, to mingle with dangerous people, and to thwart the law when the law seems wrong. Most of all it is a story of libertad.
Freedom.
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Fugitive Shoes
Fueled by a mid-life rendezvous with rock-n’-roll, a trio of women break free from their ordinary lives to find unexpected love, to mingle with dangerous people, and to thwart the law when that law is wrong.
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Seeing Pink
A group of five middle-class women, angered by continuous
acts of spousal abuse and other forms of domestic oppression,
garb themselves in pink robes and hoods, and embark upon a campaign
of revenge.
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