Three Women Writers Celebrating Never Quitting
Downtown Central Library 222 E. Harvard St., Glendale, CA, United StatesGleah Powers - Edna and Luna. Set in the American Southwest, Gleah Powers’ novel, Edna and Luna, is the story of two women: a lonely, recently widowed eccentric and a much younger new age healer. Facing old age and a hysterectomy, Edna, at 70, reminisces and ruminates about her losses as she makes unsuccessful attempts to start a new life. She tries to befriend her hairdresser, her gardener and a man she meets at a senior dance who makes sexual advances in the swimming pool. Luna, at 35, ridiculed since childhood for her unorthodox gift of healing, has left a...