But it is also the story of a woman who found Eros with a man who ended up loving her as deeply as she loved him. Q: Is your novel a love story or a journey to find truth of self?Ī: My novel is a transformational journey of a woman who needed to find her self worth outside a relationship with a man and separate from success. Her obstacles in many ways formed her, and yet they also brought her to a place of peace and love. She had little support in either society or family for her work outside the home, and she eventually was diagnosed very young with stage four breast cancer. She came from an immigrant family that treated her harshly she was sickly as a child and still kept up with her school work she married a talented writer who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and was therefore both an alcoholic and a philanderer. Maybe that’s why she was such a powerful woman - because she overcame them one by one.

Relationships, as we know, are complicated.Ī: If looked at from an aerial view, Joy’s life seems to be littered with obstacles. Tolkien was also a profoundly devout Catholic and completely disapproved of his friend cavorting with a divorced woman with children, and yet there is a lovely story that Douglas, Joy’s son, tells of Tolkien inviting Douglas to live with him when C. These attributes didn’t always meld well with Oxford dons and British sensibilities. Joy was a Jewish New York divorcee she was outspoken and brilliant. The negative reactions, I do believe, stemmed from societal, religious and behavioral differences. S.’s friends loved Joy and spent time with her and traveled with them both. Tolkien did not like Joy - yet so many of C. There were mixed reactions among his friends.

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