Gloria Allen, reading and signing her new memoir, Life's Too Short, and So Am I!
Here's a summary of the book, in Gloria's own words:
During childhood, we are unaware of the power we have to change someone’s life. That sometimes, we as children need to take matters into our own hands to save someone we love. On January 18, 1976 I saved two people. I saved my mother (an alcoholic) and I saved myself. A few weeks before that night, a guardian angel gave me a glimpse into how our lives could be if she would just stopped drinking. From the age of five until the age of ten our roles were reversed. I was the adult and she was the child and after that night, the tides began to turn and our new relationship had begun. We were still of course, mother and daughter but we also became allies, both needing each other to make it through the life changes she was about to face and of course the wonderful years of being a teenager with a side order of achondroplasia (Dwarfism).
Now I’m all grown-up, (sorta) but still have no real path of what or where I’m suppose to be. I feel as though I’m suppose to be some where else, doing something else, like my life skipped a groove somewhere and trying to back track. But how far back should I go before I find the path that I was supposed to be on.
I hope readers will identify with me. I hope they laugh, cry and feel good at the end of the book’s journey. Life’s too short and so am I, is the title for this memoire. It’s about a little girl changing the course of history for her and her mother only to find herself lost at 42. Married three times (third time is a charm)Having one son with developmental disabilities and a step son that loves me but doesn’t allow me to get really close to him in respect to his real mother who lacks the maternal nurturing on soooo many levels. This isn’t a book about a little person trying to make it in this BIG bad world. This isn’t a book making a point stating even though I’m little I can do everything average people can do. It’s just the title of the book.
No hidden meaning….Because Life is too short and as a matter of fact so am I.
- Street:
- Water Street Bookstore
- Additional:
- 125 Water Street
- City:
- Exeter ,
- Province:
- New Hampshire
- Postal Code:
- 03833
- Country:
- United States
