By Helen Winslow Black
HOW DO YOU RECLAIM YOUR lifestyles after an abusive marriage? by way of turns funny, scandalous, and lyrical, Seven Blackbirds follows Kimberly Baltakis as she stumbles alongside the line towards wholeness, briefcase in a single hand, diaper bag within the other.
Helen Black is a graduate of Mount Holyoke collage, college of Chicago, and the collage of Tulsa collage of legislations. She lives in Portland, Oregon together with her husband and 5 children.
"At one a.m. in Tulsa the silence is unexpectedly deep. Am I within the urban or the rustic? Is Tulsa city or suburban, domestic or alien territory? i am afraid to fall asleep, so I sit up straight in mattress and give some thought to the disintegration of my marriage. In his crib, child Nathan turns in langourous, pink-cheeked shut eye and pokes a tiny hand in the course of the bars. In a massive urban ight now, there'd be sirens, airplanes, motor vehicle alarms; right here, not anything. in the course of the evening, in the midst of the rustic, i'm marooned in absolute, dustless, heat-soaked silence. the ground drops out of the current. The earlier rushes up from at the back of and blocks my destiny, and i am stranded--stranded in Tulsa, town of my discontent."
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