A Mouth Full of Shell
- Author: Connie Gotsch
- Publisher: DLSIJ Press
- Classification: Romance
- Reviewed by: Carolyn Howard-Johnson
Watch out world! A new author of note is emerging. Connie Gotsch uses her experience in the world of broadcasting to color a story about a woman who must learn a new way to fight repression if she is to carve a new world for herself.
Dr. Betsy Craig battles the inherent suppression of an insulated town in Amish country where she also must learn to negotiate the difficult political terrain of a small college. Many women will recognize fragments of their own lives in Betsy’s struggle. She is a talented, well-educated woman who should know better but, like many of us, settles for what life hands her in one moment and, in the next, fights desperately against the odds.
Gotsch’s A Mouth Full of Shell, is a full of well-delineated characters and so soundly grounded that the reader feels the protagonist’s experiences. University life. The radio studio. The exquisite Pennsylvania hill country. A decade gone but one that-in many ways and for many women-still exists.
Readers–particularly women– who search for books that keep them turning pages and leave them with enough to mull over for many evenings after they close the cover, will find this novel well worth their time. Anyone who thinks that women in today’s world can comfortably follow the paths hacked out of the underbrush by others will come to understand that they owe more than that to the struggle.
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Carolyn Howard-Johnson is the author of two award-winning book and her new book for authors, THE FRUGAL BOOK PROMOTER: HOW TO DO WHAT YOUR PUBLISHER WON’T, will be released as an e-book and a paperback this August at www.starpublish.com. She is an instructor for UCLA Extension’s Writers’ Program and a former journalist and publicist.
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