Pinkhoneysuckle

Diaspora of southern people from the lower Appalachian farms to dismal city dwellings is shown, in truth, as how quaint towns, small farms, and independent people were turned in to fully impoverished farm dwellers  larger  communities steered toward flood zones of Great Lakes Cities.The author s style of mixing humor in to abysmal circumstances, or to take you in to the cold fear of harm always lurking along the pathway of an  agrarian child to city woman has led Amazon readers to 5 star declarations of the beauty, suspense, the unspeakable mixed with the salvaging of a soul and the deepest respect from roots of injustice and poverty. People speak of their inability to control tears from the sorrows and then from the laughter as only a southern Sand Mountain born girl can tell of the darkness versing the light--The innocence under attack from forces of evil, and how people place their hopes in the hereafter  is hardly understood to those outside of such regions.

The historical age and the assassination of John Kennedy, The Civil Rights Movement, and watching Washington burn after the death of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King chills one in to the reality that we were a country on the edge of collapsing from within for while, "Grapes of Wrath," showed the mass migration to California of the Oklahoma--Never before has the lives and deaths of Southern Appalachians people and places have  been recorded as the disaster and diaspora heaped upon American citizens without apology or even to acknowledge that such a move south to north was engineered.--The death of small farms and sharecroppers ,the mystical experiences which separated these farm dwellers to know the seasons, to interpret the wind, and to know of angel interventions==I made, "Pinkhoneysuckle" in to a pretty one word to hold my book where, "The Pink Honeysuckle Vine plays a large role throughout the years.

The book,  won a  first place in Hollywood 2012 and Honorable Mention in San Francisco 2012 Book Festivals. It is now known on both sides of the Rockies and has book followers as distant as, P.R. of China, the city of Wuhan.  2014 PBS WGUC, Cincinnati, interviewed by Lee Hay, Cincinnati, A noted PBS star in Mid West selected to do a series based on the life of Kentucky neighbors, Rosemary Clooney and Family.  Interviewed by Donna Seebo, Seattle radio and NW in program on, "Pinkhoneysuckle,"--Donna Seebo s programs go on to Armed Forces Radio and Supports Wounded Warriors, USA--Please check for Donna s shows listed for 2015.  Notable friends include Robert Cooper, PhD, Anthropology as well as Raymond Walker, An Award Winning Author and greatly loved in his native Scotland.  I ve done reviews for University of Louisville, E. Carolyn Tucker, For many English author friends, as well as a recent review for Dr. Carroll Helm PhD who has just finished his own fabulous book, "Gods Mysteries and Paradoxes."  I had the pleasure of doing a review recently for David A. Buttress, Real Estate and Business Well know person of Austin, Texas who has degrees from The University of Tennessee as well as The University of Texas--Book, "Long Term Greedy.