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As America exploded into the swinging sixties, nine-year-old Mary Patricia's parents fled their old melting pot neighborhood to join the upwardly mobile members of the cocktail generation. Abandoned at seventeen when her family moves yet again, Mary Patricia is left to ride out a tsunami of struggle, including lying about her age in order to land a job working for the Chicago Mafia. Gut instinct tells her that she is in imminent danger and she escapes, to the counterculture of Southern California in the early 1970s and then a jubilant Bicentennial Manhattan. Her tenacious pursuit of a college degree takes her north to Vermont, where she hopes for a stable life when she marries and has three sons. It’s a Pyrrhic victory as she confronts a string of calamities, including divorce, catastrophic illness and her parents' deaths after 9/11. Rising from the ashes, she and her husband reunite and Mary Patricia finally gets what she so richly deserves: The time of her life. “Spanning fifty years, Fading Past is by turns funny, poignant, and heart-rending—a tale of two centuries as eloquent as it is finely wrought.” Bestselling author James M. Tabor author of The Deep Zone and Forever on the Mountain. “Mary Kathleen Mehuron’s honest, memoir-like novel, Fading Past, tells the epic story of Mary Patricia Toohey, whose story bridges a half century of American history. It’s a clear-eyed yet kind-hearted examination of friendship, family ties, marriage, and courage, by a serious and thoughtful writer who knows whereof she speaks.” Howard Frank Mosher, award winning and bestselling author of A Stranger in the Kingdom and Where the Rivers Flow North. “Mehuron’s debut contains all of the elements that readers’ of women’s fiction look for - family entanglements, loves gained and lost, the search to recapture youth, and the rewards and forfeits of friendship." Nanci Milone-Hill author of Reading Women: A Book Club Guide for Women’s Fiction. “I couldn’t put it down. I read for hours, and when I finished, I wandered around for a while, still living with Mary Patricia and her family. . . so well written and a truly interesting story. Reeve Lindbergh author of Under a Wing and Forward From Here: Leaving Middle Age and Other Unexpected Adventures.
Fading Past, by Mary Kathleen Mehuron- Amazon Sales Rank: #1841971 in Books
- Published on: 2015-11-02
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .62" w x 6.00" l, .81 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 272 pages
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Overcoming Life's Obstacles By Janet Hubbard Mehuron describes in her fictional biography that one suspects contains a great deal of truth about what it was like to grow up in a multi-cultural community in New Jersey in the 1950s and 60s. Her family was second-generation Irish, and her parents were a part of the upward mobility culture. Her father was a Willy Loman-type character, exceptionally smart and ambitious, and rarely admitting defeat. He had a narcissistic and fragile wife and five children to support, which was daunting. The young Mehuron, who was too often put in the role of mother to the younger children, had inherited her father's determination to prove herself. At seventeen her parents abandoned her, and soon after her wealthy boyfriend did, too. In a way this is the classic story of the "American dream," where the belief is strong that with hard work and determination one can achieve success. And like her ancestors, Mehuron has a gift for storytelling as she writes about how she went about achieving her dream of a college degree, the surest path to success. The reader has high hopes for her as she earns her degree, moves to Vermont, marries well, and has children. But the worst is yet to me as she divorces, then learns she has breast cancer, and while undergoing treatment, is told that her father has died suddenly, followed by her mother a few weeks later. With learned fortitude, Mehuron forges a new life with her ex-husband. In the writing of this book she conveys through humor and story that we are in the constant process of creating ourselves, and our lives. "Fading Past" is a great read! (Full Disclosure: I edited the first version of this book.)
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. My favorite parts can be told in two words By mike A thoroughly honest reckoning with life's struggles, hypocrisies, ups, downs and in-betweens. This semi-autobiographical novel reminds us why the only constant in life is change. My favorite parts can be told in two words: Chicago Mob.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. but instead loved children, growing up in sane families By katja v Mary Kathleen Mehuron has written an intriguing novel based mostly on her own, quite dramatic life. It reveals how important our childhood is and what is the meaning of a stable family, or the lack of it and how loves, friends, and children make our lives meaningful.If I could, I would force parenthood test for people wanting kids. The result would be not an overpopulated earth, but instead loved children, growing up in sane families. Anyway..The atmosphere, and places are well built, the writers own path, and the as well as interaction of friends, make an interesting and a moving story. An impressive tale of how she has survived immense obstacles, nourished herself with self-expression, living life to the fullest, not always by choice, but enriching her experience into becoming a deeply mature person.It shows us how old imagery of our loved ones can stop the communication, and finding peace with each other gives meaning to life. The difficulties and pains of the cancer phase are an overwhelming read. What a life!
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