"This expansive and elegiac novel focuses on the life of a woman who searches for true love... An enjoyable family tale with a tough and memorable hero." ---Kirkus Review
An adventurous and inspiring story of a courageous woman who struggles against social injustice: as a saboteur during the Costa Rican revolution, and later, as wife to an abusive husband. To protect her children, she immigrates to the US.
Never To Forget is based on a true story of a woman’s adventurous struggle to fulfill the promise of love, even from the margins of mid-20th century Costa Rican society and as an immigrant in the US.
Spurned at age five by her mother’s admonition that girls can’t be soldiers, Bertelina sets out in an adventurous struggle for personal fulfillment to eventually become embroiled in the 1948 Costa Rican revolutionary quest for social justice, and ultimately with women’s struggle for self-determination. With the inner strength of a soldier, she grapples to balance the traditional feminine role with her eventual urgency to protect her children after a divorce from an abusive husband. In overcoming social and religious roadblocks, she immigrates to the United States.
After finally fulfilling her aspirations, everything about herself is threatened to be decimated by the devastation of Alzheimer’s dementia.
Professional Reviews
Kirkus Review
"This expansive and elegiac novel focuses on the life of a woman who searches for true love... An enjoyable family tale with a tough and memorable hero." ---Kirkus Review
BookLife Reviews
"An adventurous and inspiring story of a courageous woman who struggles against social injustice... A striking historical novel of women and the Costa Rican revolution." ---BookLife Reviews
The Prairie Book Review
"Set in Costa Rica and The United States, this poignant literary tale will leave readers thoroughly satisfied." ---The Prairie Book Review
London: Lashed, Lacerated, Lampooned and Lambasted satirizes 18 popular Jack London novellas with adult content and language and the work is author Jay Dubya's 37th published hardcover/paperback book.
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.