Introducing: The House by Anjuelle Floyd

Title: The House
Author: Anjuelle Floyd
Publisher: Neptune Publications
Release Date: 2010
ISBN-10: 0-9787967-2-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-9787967-2-3
Paperback: 300 pages
List Price: $16.00

Description:

On receiving the very thing she wants—a divorce and the power to sell their house—over which they have fought the past year—Anna Manning learns that Edward, her soon-to-be ex-husband is dying from cancer.

A faithful wife for three decades, and stay-at-home mother of four children, Anna endured Edward’s constant absence due to travel for his international real estate firm and numerous extra-marital affairs. With their children now adults, Edward has less than six months, possibly three, to live.

Anna takes him home to die in the house she has fought so vigorously to sell. But letting go of someone who has caused so much pain in your life doesn’t come easily. Edward has changed. There are Anna and Edward’s four children, three of whom who are married and struggling to endow their families with meaning and purpose.

There is also Inman who loves Anna, and gives the one thing Edward denied her—passion and intimacy. And lastly there is Anna. An art history major turned wife and mother out of college, she had planned on divorcing Edward and with her proceeds from the sale of the house move to France. Anna would visit and study the works in Europe’s famous museums—perhaps work as a docent in one.

News of Edward’s terminal illness provokes her to understand the present, rooted in a wellspring of the past and pouring into a future without him.

The House shows what happens when one adopts the belief that: All hold regret and are seeking forgiveness. Our salvation rests in the hands of others—most particularly the ones we love, and who have treated us wrongly.

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About the Author:

ANJUELLE FLOYD is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in mother-daughter relations and dream work. A graduate of Duke University, she received her MA in Counseling Psychology from The California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco. She has attended the Dominican Institute of Philosophy and Theology, Berkeley, California, and received her MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College, Port Townsend, Washington. She has received certificates of participation from The Hurston-Wright Writers’ Week and The Voices of Our Nations Writing Workshops.

A student of Process Painting for the last decade, ANJUELLE has participated in The Art of Living Black Exhibitions 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 held at the Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California. ANJUELLE facilitates writing groups and provides individual consultation of fiction projects. She also gives talks on The Need for Family, the Writing Process as a Path Toward Self-discovery and Healing.

A wife of twenty-eight years, mother of three, ANJUELLE lives in Oakland, California.

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Make sure you come on back on November 29th when Age is Just a Number will be a stop on the tour for The House coordinated by Tywebbin Virtual Book Tours visiting several blogs every Monday for the month of November.  There is an opportunity to win a kindle along every stop of the tour.  If you're just joining me, here's the list of stops you've missed  and the upcoming stops for Monday, November 8th.

November 1

All The Buzz Reviews
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Literary Gumbo
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Writer @ Work
http://hamdhoon.wordpress.com

Readaholic
http://bridget3420.blogspot.com

Thoughts from the Akazia Files
http://www.akaziaj.blogspot.com

November 8

RAWSistaz Literary Group
http://www.rawsistaz.com

Shelia Deeth Blog
http://sheiladeeth.blogspot.com

My Love Affair with Books
http://books-love-affair.blogspot.com/

Dellanioakes Weblog
http://dellanioakes.wordpress.com/

This That and the Other Thing
http://rannthisthat.blogspot.com