“Witnessing Nevaeh’s growth from a flaky, treehouse-dwelling, rat-keeping hotel maid to a mature young woman—despite seemingly insurmountable obstacles—makes reading this novel worthwhile….
Well-written, moving new adult/women’s fiction with a meaningful moral.”
--Kirkus Reviews
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Parallel Lives
Facing Danger, Seeking Love and Redemption
(Chicago, Illinois) – Who is safer, a 23-year-old woman who plays the glass harmonica on the streets of New Orleans and lives in a commune-style house with other free spirits, con artists and petty thieves like herself—or a rising television weathercaster who resides in a luxury high rise in Chicago with her emotionally volatile husband?
When Nevaeh Thera gives up her street life to move in with her cousin, star meteorologist Dawn Ann McKnight and her photographer husband, Derek Baldwin, a life-threatening truth is exposed and both women learn that you can’t start over, but you can start again.
“Witnessing Nevaeh’s growth from a flaky, treehouse-dwelling, rat-keeping hotel maid to a mature young woman—despite seemingly insurmountable obstacles—makes reading this novel worthwhile….
Well-written, moving new adult/women’s fiction with a meaningful moral.”
--Kirkus Reviews
Author Mary Hutchings Reed will donate 10% of the proceeds from each sale of Saluting the Sun to the Legal Aid Foundation, which provides pro bono legal assistance for people living in poverty in Chicago and suburban Cook County.
About the Author: Mary Hutchings Reed is an award-winning novelist and playwright, following a distinguished legal career. Her conventional resume includes 34 years of practicing law, first with Sidley & Austin and then with Winston & Strawn, two of the largest firms in Chicago. She was a partner at both in the advertising, trademark, copyright, entertainment and sports law areas.
She has 11 novels to her credit plus a musical about golf (Fairways). Her fiction has appeared in ARS Medica, The Ligourian and The Tampa Review. Honors include Illinois Libraries’ “Soon to be Famous” Author Project finalist in 2014. Her well-received novel, Warming Up, was a Semifinalist, William Wisdom-William Faulkner Prize for an unpublished novel in 2009; Top Ten Writers Digest Self-Published Book Awards for Mainstream Fiction; Top 15 Finalist, Book of the Year Awards, Foreword Reviews; and Top Eight Finalist, Eric Hoffer Awards.
In June 2015, she will receive the Legal Aid Foundation’s highest honor, its “Champion for Justice Award.”
Mary is advised by April Eberhardt of San Francisco. Learn more at http://www.maryhutchingsreed.com
Title: Saluting the Sun
Author: Mary Hutchings Reed
Genre: Literary Fiction/Contemporary Women
ISBN: Book 978-0990560340
ISBN: eBook 978-0990560364
Publication Date: April, 2015
Pages: 264
Price: $16.95
Publisher: Ampersand, Inc.
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