Penny Sue has a song in her heart, follow her through ages 7 - 22.
After Penny Sue's parents whisk her away from her home and the grandparents she loves, she spends years blaming herself for disrupting the lives of all the adults she knows. Her self-loathing only gets worse when her alcoholic mother lashes out at anyone who tries to help her daughter. The only way Penny can deal with it all is by keeping a song in her heart. When she finally hits real stages and adds applause to the other addictions she picked up along the way, it seems even her escape isn't really what she though it was. This story of music, addictions, and difficult family dynamics spans ages seven through twenty-two, set in 50s - 70s.
My second book is about a boy who has Asperger's Syndrome and is bullied to the point to where he shoots up his school. I have divided the excerpts from it into three parts: Before, during and after the shooting.
The Apple Tree Blossoms in The Fall, is the life journey of Carineh - a child, a teenager, a wife, a mother, but most of all a woman of purpose. From stories of her parents held-up by bandits; the white donkey gifted by Khomeini; her father's death f
