Book Info
Title- Tea and Madness
By- C. Streetlights
Genre- Women’s
Fiction/Poetry/Memoir
Publication Date- June 29th, 2015
Published By- Booktrope
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Blurb
“And when it falls into silence
again the void it echoes fills me with wonder. Wonder only because I no longer
remember if this small entity isn’t real or if it whispers the truth.”
-Moonlight
C. Streetlight’s memoir, Tea
& Madness, is a collection of prose and poetry separated into the seasons
of her life. Each season is inspired by her experiences: grieving a lost baby,
understanding depression, anger, betrayal, surviving rape and the acceptance
that she cannot forgive. Balanced somehow within the darkness is the wonder in
motherhood and empathetic relationships. As her seasons change, she continues
trying to find the balance of existing between normalcy and madness.
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Excerpt
From “Pears”
For too long my grandfather had
held onto my grandmother’s clothes and shoes and he finally felt ready to
tackle their closet one summer. The multiple purchases of the same item (with
the tags still attached) were all evidence of her failing mind. I pulled out
old packages of Wrigley’s Spearmint Gum, Kleenex purse packs, tubes of
ChapStick, throat drops and loose change as I went through and emptied each of
her purses. I found her wallet and smoothed my hands over the leather. I opened
it to pull out old credit cards and instead found two photographs: one of
myself and of my cousin who is less than a year younger than me.
I wasn’t forgotten.
And then I cried.
I cried for the woman I'd lost
and for the granddaughter I never was.
About the Author
She has met many fools, but
admires Don Quixote most because he taught her that it didn’t matter that the
dragon turned out to be a windmill. What mattered was that he chose to fight
the dragon in the first place.
Streetlights now lives in the
mountains with a husband, two miracle children, and a dog who eats Kleenex. She
retired from teaching so she can raise her children to pick up their underwear
from the bathroom floor, to write, and to slay windmills and dragons. She is
happy to report that she can finally see the stars.
You can follow C. Streetlights on
Twitter @cstreetlights, and on Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest at C.
Streetlights
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