Tangled Dreams: A Novel($19.99Value)

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Tangled Dreams is a seductive tale of family secrets, forbidden love, and mystical revelations--a work of literary/commercial fiction and magical realism with a love story at its heart. “When I said marriage is not for you, I had my reasons.” Dr. Jocelyn Kendall awakens in her Boston hotel room to the sound of her dead mother’s voice. Disappointed in romance and overlooked for a well-deserved promotion as a professor of cultural anthropology. The haunting message from her mother reminds Jocelyn of the family secrets her mother took to her grave... " Tangled Dreams is Delores Lowe Friedman’s second novel, and it is historically grounded in current times and in the past. I read Delores's first novel, Wildflowers and thoroughly enjoyed it. One of Ms. Friedman’s gifts is her ability to create characters, places and circumstances that are real and alive to the reader. Once you begin reading, you are living in her character’s world. You live there with them. You get to know what they think and feel. She invites you into their world and you see what they see, feel what they feel, and how their thoughts and understandings grow and change. Her writing is sensual and compelling. This story is about women, living today and yesterday. Her descriptions of their interactions, through their dialogue and thoughts, leads you to think about the choices we as women make, and how the women of long ago may have felt in the challenges met. Delores Lowe Friedman has a glorious gift for placing us in characters' shoes, and having us walk in the paths they walk and in the time in which they live. You will not be able to stop reading Tangled Dreams. As a woman, you will want to talk about the issues it raises with friends. Most importantly, it will be a thrilling, great read!" Myrna M. Rivera Cardona " A fantastic example of ancestry-driven fiction." Kirkus Review, c onsidered the most trusted voice in book reviews since 1933 . Kirkus awarded Tangled Dreams a Kirkus Star, and called Tangled Dreams ," A fantastic example of ancestry-driven fiction." The Kirkus review says, " Friedman's prose is fluid, moving from sensual moments ("His touch was ever so light...his kisses were artful, arousing") to tense and action-packed scenes ("He is planning to kill me!...I was Mariel yet again"). This fluidity extends to the timeline itself, and the delicious moments when the past and present merge into a state somewhere in between are a true treat to become immersed in." Awards & Accolades Our Verdict - - GET IT Friedman sweeps readers into a supernatural journey of love, family heritage, and buried secrets through the eyes of Jocelyn Kendall, an anthropologist,...who travels to the Caribbean island of Bequia ...Before she embarks, Jocelyn visits her friend Selena—who encourages her to try past life regression .... Those sessions briefly transport Jocelyn to her great-great-grandmother Mariel's past life, and, once she arrives on the island, her dreams carry her fully into Mariel's story: a 19th century Carib woman caught between Portuguese whaler John Matos and a Cape Verdean man named Sumadi. As Jocelyn excavates her family history, the words of her mother—"when I said marriage is not for you, I had my reasons"—haunt her, whispering of a fate that traces back to her ancestors' choices. ...Friedman draws Jocelyn's character with psychological honesty, probing the power of women's desire and creativity passed down through generations. ...as Jocelyn's path melds ever closer with Mariel's, readers will be transported into a layered history rich with emotional depth and self-discovery. Takeaway: Layered story of love, desire, and fate that spans generations. Tangled Dreams is Delores Lowe Friedman's second novel. Her debut novel, Wildflowers, won the 2021 North Street Book Prize for Hybrid Published and Self-Published Books in Literary Fiction/Mainstream Fiction. Delores is a longtime educator as a professor at the City University in New York and educator for New York City public schools.