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|  | | Celeena by Otha Lee
Celeena's story continues in CELEENA. Now moving along her path as a roistering pilgrim, she engages in the proverbial "hand to hand" cycle of many single adults. Her lifestyle of serial monogamy includes relationships with Kwame, Adrian, John a married co-worker residing in another state, and Jake. She also has a torrid one-night stand with Rene a young French-Canadian who is the cousin of her good friend Loretta. Celeena's evolvement reveals a potent individual with a deal of savvy. She is spiritual, sensual and earthy; a mix that is both connective and sometimes disconcerting to her friends and lovers.
| | | | Celeena, Abraham's Other Daughter by Otha Lee
What happens when a woman finds herself and discovers that she is lost? Celeena, first met as a forty-something African-American housewife bound in a mockery of marriage is confronted with a few answers. She is an emotionally abused, sexually dissatisfied wife without a clue to her husband's needs and only a partial clue to her own. Her nature is layered under the tightly wound mien of submissive churchy wife. Celeena's life unravels in the wake of her rape at the hands of the young man she has permitted herself to believe she is spiritually mentoring. In denial of how she carries on until it is irrevocably too late, she enters a seductive relationship with him. Her provocative behavior sparks a daylong sexual liaison at her home during her family's absence. The manner of it forces a humiliating collision with reality. Her shadow world is shattered and she is kicked into the sometimes joyful, sometimes painful experiences of getting through life as a single woman-mother.
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