FIVE STARS for Faces Behind the Stones: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Review of 'Faces Behind the Stones', January 6, 2013
By
toftoy - See all my reviews
This review is from: Faces Behind the Stones (Paperback)
I live near Arlington Cemetery. Sometimes, walking around the
gravestones, I wonder what it would be like if some of those buried,
could rise up for a few minutes and tell me what happened to them.
Fran Lewis, through her extreme creativity, has done this for us in her
wonderful, thought-provoking novel, 'Faces Behind The Stones'. Lewis
relates seven short stories about seven different people, allowing us to
hear their voices from behind their gravestones.The dead are talking to
us in real-time. What can be more interesting than that? As Katie says,
in the sixth story, "Listen to my story. Hear my voice." Fran Lewis
wrote a Prologue and Epilogue for each story.
Here are
some clips that highlight the intrigue portrayed in each story. #1: MJ-
"So, I'm rotting away in this disgusting place,all alone..."; "Find out
who put me here." This is about MJ's bout with nursing home abuse. #2:
Virginia- "What happens when you are wrongly accused and no one cares.";
"...we are tarnished and diseased and not worth being near.";" The
heinous charges against me were invented to force me to
retire,...";"Administrators(school)
have too much power and often they abuse it..."; "...assume guilt by
word of an untrustworthy student or an adult out for revenge.";"When you
are not guilty you need to fight..." #3: Belinda- "...having no one to
talk to with and share any thoughts, fears and questions." #4: John-
"All I know is that they have no time for me." Lewis provides warning
signs for teen suicide. She describes a school suicide prevention
program. #5: Tom- His parents gave him no credit. "...my brother was
into buying andselling body parts for profit." ;"...many of his patients
never made it to the recovery room."; "Never play God with the lives of
others..." #6: Katie- "When they added an IV with meds, they did not
consider what the end result would be..."; "...sometimes money makes
strange bedfellows." #7: Don- He received a telephone call. "I know who
you really are and what you did."; "Every near death experience has a
short-lived silver lining."; "Sometimes your past becomes your present."
If this review doesn't incite you to run out and buy Lewis's book, then
I've missed the mark. There are so many lessons to learn from this
relatively short book(174 pages) that one can apply to our own lives. In
short, this is a must read. Dr. Charles N. Toftoy
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