Bøger af Elizabeth Genovise

In the wake of a train derailment, a comatose passenger traverses a mythological landscape that restores the numinous to his life. A woman who has served too long as a metaphorical battery for those around her realizes she must learn to nurture the fire within. A professor and student, both planning suicide, cross paths at precisely the right time and inadvertently save each other's lives. A painter's vivid dream explores the nature of artistic creation, revealing both its hazards and rewards. Three repressed and despairing souls spend the night at a lighthouse, where the yearnings of their unconscious minds finally make themselves heard. The lives of the characters in Lighthouse Dreams are tenuous and endangered, but hope arrives in the form of startling synchronicities, spontaneous visions, and the unexpected compassion of others.

The characters in these thirteen stories set in the mountains of east Tennessee struggle with both regret and renewal. Three children confront the reality of death, and the possibility of a returning, during a family camping trip; a lonely teacher endures both condemnation and forgiveness from a challenging student; a missionary's wife makes a surprising discovery about the true definition of love; a widower regains his confidence thanks to some unexpected help; an unlikely interchange between a depressed car salesman and a neglected housewife sparks a revival in them both. These and other characters discover unexpected turns even along the most familiar trails. They often find that where there are two or more, there is the potential for clarity and rebirth, even in the wilderness of lives they never saw coming.