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A Breath Floats By: An Illusion for the Soul
Author Thayne Hudson
“All the characters in the novel are abundantly sized people, even the men. Writers offer deeper insight into a story if they write what they know. We are also admonished to suffer more in order to be great writers. It’s easier to write what I know – which is living within my spiritual solitude in a large world – and to hope that I have suffered enough.”
Thayne Hudson, author
A Breath Floats By demonstrates how it takes a village for each one of us to lick our sacred wounds and take on our promise to this world… our life’s work. This is one woman’s connections and struggle.
The novel introduces a soul group - a soul cluster - who travel lifetimes together for support in their life work. In their previous lifetime, they were all brothers and sisters, and they are kind of feeling that connection which puts a hair-pulling spin on the relationships and a real damper on the romance - for awhile anyway.
In a contemporary North American setting near the Great Lakes, we find Lindsay, our main character, fretting about her husband’s terminal illness. She is still longing as she has been for the last twenty years, for the love of her eternity, but this time around he is her husband’s best friend. And he seems to be considering his third marriage, since she is taking her sweet time about being with him. Lindsay is also trying to avoid Gooee. Gooee is the psychic who haunts her every turn.
On a soul level, Lindsay struggles with deep-seated turmoil. She has been balking about her life work since she was in high school because it scares the stuffing out of her. But thirty-five years later, her change of life has hit the fan. She can avoid her promise no longer. Her best friends in all eternity, one being a death doula, have now caught up to her and their tough love means do or die.
Lindsay has to be self-real before she can be honest with everyone. But she is being asked to let go of her family structure as she knows it, which she swore she would never compromise. All the while, she knows too clearly that Gooee wants her dying husband for the reward of seeing Lindsay off on this delightful life purpose that Lindsay does not want. And she does not realize that this lifetime around, her dearest friend in the Universe, sweet, supportive Heather Laurel, is so heartbroken that she needs all of them more than they need her.
“Thayne Hudson is an abundant woman-of-size who combines good-natured wit with substantial storytelling talent,” says Essa Adams, publisher of ESSA Books. “Her fiction sings out with the voices of wisdom keepers in a kaleidoscope of spiritual messages we, as people whose souls are dozing in modern society, long to hear again. This is a story of contemporary awakening. A contemporary shaman facing off death. And a love story. Who better to bring it to life than three bountiful, energy-conducting, goddesses?”
“A Breath Floats By: An Illusion for the Soul” is available for approximately $17.50 in paperback from online and mortar bookstores. Shipping varies.
See ESSA Books at www.essabooks.com to order an autographed copy, and read generous excerpts, including :
Large and lovely excerpts: www.essabooks.com/20912/33112.html
Sultry excerpts: www.essabooks.com/20912/4701.html
Three fat wise women excerpts: www.essabooks.com/20912/5243.html
Read Chapter One: www.essabooks.com/20912/22312.html
Begin Chapter Two: www.essabooks.com/20912/22333.html
Publisher: essa@essabooks.com
Author: thayne_hudson@essabooks.com
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