Vera's Still Point

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Ruth Perkinson jumped onto the literary scene just a few short years ago and is already establishing herself as a voice to be heard. With the release of her first book, Vera's Still Point, she debuted as an author who was willing to put her story and reputation on the line.
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Synopsis:

Ever met a forty-year-old lesbian Republican librarian in love with her own repression? Well, Vera Curran is it. She's sexless, loveless, and full of sardonic vinegar until she meets the newest member of the Louisa County High School faculty: the statuesque Frankie Bourdon. Bourdon is an ex-Navy pilot hell-bent on getting gay sex education taught where she is newly affiliated and Vera practially laughs in her face till the tides turn serious: Vera begins to have feelings she never thought existed. Now, here's the hard part. How does Frankie deal with two speedbumps - the public school system and the very funny, yet ridiculous Vera Curran?

When the shifting feelings ensue, Vera begins to unveil to the reader that there are two types of cancer killing people: the cancer of hatred and the cancer filling Frankie's lungs. Vera must find her way during the most pivotal eighteen months of her life.

Book Excerpt:

She had been literally and metaphorically struck down by her Bible-wielding mother. In one hand she held it, but on the other, Eileen ran contrary by exclaiming to her daughter that she did indeed love her. When Frankie was young, Eileen Bourdon had scrubbed her daughter's hair over a sink and had inserted pink barrettes and bobby pins and pinched and poked and made her wear dresses and spit-shiny patent leather shoes and go to Holy Communion and listen to the man whe replicated Jesus and his garbled tongue of which she didn't understand anything and then put the white wafer in her mouth like she was really eating somebody an now she's accepted Jesus Christ into her life and I hope the poor little tomboy grows out of this stage. My little girl is a tomboy and now look at what she's gone ahead and done to me with playing with her neighbor's Army men and wanting to play the trumpet and listen to Elton John. What kind of appreciation was that?

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