Crip and Eppie

Therese Wolfe, Pamela Compton

Beschreibung

Eppie was outside struggling with the mechanics of opening the red wheelchair… she could never have dreamed this up, this was something that happened to someone else, not her friend, not her co-conspirator… Yet here she was serving up this strange red-wheeled creature to Crip as if it were a glass of milk.Crip and Eppie: A Counterfeit Testimonial of a Bonafide Friendship is a literary romp of a novel centralizing two protagonists who reflect unsparingly on their lives. Crip is plagued by ongoing suicidal thoughts due to the unpredictable, progressive, and debilitating nature of her disease, multiple sclerosis. She grieves the loss of PussnBoots after his betrayal, and wrestles with shock and disbelief as he transitions to a woman. Eppie, her empathic off-centered friend, has epilepsy. She wants to live and wants to jump hand-in-hand with Crip off the Golden Gate bridge. In her deep-seated partnership with hospice nurse BigHo^RN, Eppie struggles within the complexities of his polyamory and her breaking heart. Teetering on the brink between reality and the fantastical, Crip and Eppie: A Counterfeit Testimonial of a Bonafide Friendship invites readers to lose themselves in its delightful disarray. It’s a testament to the boundless creativity of the human spirit, unshackled by convention, and thriving in its own unique harmony.Then Eppie’s lips trembled and Crip ran into a wall.THERESE WOLFE is an American writer and independent scholar currently living in Assisi, Italy. Her work has been published in Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine and Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine. She is working on a memoir that describes her move to Italy as a passage of belonging, and the fulfillment of her love affair with that country. Crip and Eppie: A Counterfeit Testimonial of a Bonafide Friendship is her first novel.PAMELA COMPTON is a painter, writer, and collage artist. Her art is represented exclusively by 73 Art Agency in Colorado, U.S.A. She currently lives and works on a ranch in Bend, Oregon. Crip and Eppie: A Counterfeit Testimonial of a Bonafide Friendship is her first novel.

Verfügbar seit: 28.12.2024.

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