<p>My maternal grandmother, Rena Melana Chaney, nicknamed Lona, was born on December 7, 1880 in Monroe, North Carolina. The Journey is set in 1899, and tells the story of her traveling in a wagon train as the bride of Charles Luther Stegall to homestead in Southern Arkansas. This book evolved from my memories of that terribly cold winter in 1943 when my grandfather died. My dad worked away from home, and since my grandmother, Mammaw, was by herself, my mother decided to take us two girls and live with her for a while. I was nine years old as I sat at Mammaw's knee, my flannel night gown pulled down over my bare feet, watching firelight shadows dance in the dark as I listened to her tell about fording rivers and stopping long enough to bury folks along the way. The wagons circled at supper time, but Mammaw didn't feel any too safe as darkness deepened and the howling of wolves came from a nearby canyon rim. My grandmother told a lot on the nights we sat by the fire. I absorbed it all, and relived most of it before I fell asleep. I can still hear her say, When Papa and me came to Arkansas on that wagon train.....</p>

The Journey

Literature & Fiction

Bennett, Frances

Contemporary

Bookstand Pub

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The Winds of September

<p>In the 1960's Frances grows up in the remote desert town of Thermal, CA. Most nights her father gets drunk and beats her mother. The child feels her joy slip away. To survive she knows she must hold on to the truth and remember what happened. Decades later in psychotherapy, Frances revisits her childhood and becomes trapped in a memory world of little girls with big demands and a lot to say. "The Shining Place" is a magical story of recovery told by the girls, and an account of their therapy endured and paid for by the adult client. "The Shining Place" is a combined memoir and an account of psychotherapy, adapted from journals written over a ten year period. It addresses issues of transference, distrust, dissociation, and rupture in the therapeutic alliance. It's a fast read on an abusive childhood and the complexities of psychotherapy.</p>

The Shining Place

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Independently published

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