The House on Sunset
By- Lindsay Fischer
Genre- Memoir/Women’s Fiction
Lindsay Fischer was once a high school English teacher with dreams stretching far outside the classroom. When her boyfriend of a year-and-a-half cheated on her, Lindsay found herself alone, looking online for a replacement. His name was Mike.
That’s where the nightmare started.
The House on Sunset is a memoir, a collection of reminiscences, scattering the ashes of two broken homes and putting them to rest. Each chapter offers a different glimpse inside the cycle of intimate partner violence, where honeymoon phases and traumas coexist.
Everyone could fall victim to abusers. This book bravely displays the reasons a quirky, twenty-something teacher would, and did.
Top 5 Favorite Authors
5. Sylvia Plath
“The Bell Jar” was another book about a complex woman that helped me find myself in college. I loved, again, the intricacies of her writing. I loved that a seemingly successful girl was still unhappy. Mental illness is a silent struggle in so many lives. Plath bravely showed us the descent into depression, something - again - that gave me strength in writing my memoir.
4. Lois Lowry
“Number the Stars” was one of the first books I remember loving as a child. The story, the heroine and courage. Growing up, I knew I wouldn’t fit the stereotypical mold of being a female, and finding a book where another girl was shown for her tremendous courage allowed me to see I didn’t have to fit that mold.
She sparked my love for honesty in literature. That’s something I’ll never forget.
3. Kurt Vonnegut
Vonnegut’s style remains one I love wholeheartedly. He was one of the first authors I read that made me appreciate deconstructing sentences to mimic thought. Perfect sentences? No thank you. The rule breaking made me comfortable putting myself out into the writing world, because perfection was unnecessary (and no longer something I wanted to attain).
2. Leo Tolstoy
Tolstoy was my college project. I took a course requiring the reading of several of his works, but I fell in love with Anna Karenina and, because of that, he sits high on my list of authors. That’s not to say I found every bit of War and Peace as delightful (I skimmed several sections) and though his views on women are drastically different than my own, I felt his ability to convey the intricacies of relationship was admirable.
1. Mark Twain
MT’s genius is undeniable. His abridged words were force-fed to me at an early age (being from Missouri will do that to you), but I was always curious about the real stories he’d written. The older I get and the more refined my wit became, the more I realized I appreciated satire. His ability to remain significant this long, the fact that he wrote about things that are still culturally relevant (what does that say about society?), and his use of humor to show us flaws is magic.
About the Author-
Lindsay Fischer graduated from Missouri State University with a Bachelor of Science in secondary education, English. An avid reader and learner, Lindsay took her passion for words into a classroom before starting a writing career. Life pulled her from the classroom, providing an opportunity to use her voice against domestic violence, blogging under the pseudonym, Sarafina Bianco, since 2009. You can find her words at survivorswillbeheard.com and speak directly to her when she hosts #domesticviolencechat on Twitter. Lindsay hopes to be an advocate for women, men and children who still live inside the nightmare of their abuse. She currently lives with her husband and three dogs, including Watson, in St. Louis, Missouri.
Links-
Facebook: www.facebook.com/survivorswillbeheard
Twitter: @LinsFischer
Author Site: survivorswillbeheard.com
Instagram: @lindsaycapo
No comments:
Post a Comment