SHELTER FROM THE TEXAS HEAT is about the coming-of-age of the characters, and of America itself.
PRLog - Nov. 15, 2013 - DALLAS -- SHELTER from the TEXAS HEAT: a novel
Author: Bobbi Kornblit
Publisher: Peach Twig Press
Paperback and e-book
Pages: 324
www.BobbiKornblit.com
www.Facebook.com/Shelter.from.the.Texas.Heat
Attention is focused on the upcoming 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The tragedy on November 22, 1963 will be commemorated in Dallas in a variety of events, including a book talk by Bobbi Kornblit at the Public Library. The award-winning author weaves an intriguing tale set in Dallas and Austin in the “Kennedy Camelot years” to contemporary times in her debut novel that is popular with women’s book clubs, Shelter from the Texas Heat.
Compared in reviews to The Help and Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Shelter from the Texas Heat has garnered awards, including the Multicultural-Fiction category of the National Indie Excellence Awards and Best Book/Women’s Fiction for the NABE Pinnacle Achievement Awards.
The novel has been chosen as a Recommended Selection of the national book club network, Kathy L. Patrick’s Pulpwood Queen’s Book Club, with over 500 chapters. A glowing review and follow-up interview by The Book Club Cheerleader lauded the novel:
http://bookclubcheerleader.wordpress.com/2013/11/07/hot-texas-read/
The work of fiction blends the tales of three generations of women, like a tangy, hot and subtly sweet barbecue sauce. Kornblit tackles some tough subjects—racial and religious prejudice and difficult family relationships—tempered with plenty of humor.
The novel shows the aftermath of the JFK tragedy, and how it affected a schoolgirl and her family for years to come—one of the few books in the marketplace that is not focused on the conspiracy aspect.
Protagonist Rachel and her best friend P.J. Rutherford, the daughter of a Texas tycoon, share their adventures from childhood to adulthood. Rachel seems to have it all: a happy marriage, a house in a prestigious neighborhood, and a daughter who is a coed at UT Austin. Then suddenly, Rachel’s world turns upside down, and that’s when the heat in the novel cranks up.
Rachel’s mother, Rosy Rosenshein Miller, tries to overcome the nightmare of her own past. She has loads of spunk and a little too much red lipstick and is always ready to offer advice.
Above all, the novel is about keeping secrets and the poser of friendship to release them. From funny, turned disastrous moments at a glamorous birthday party at Neiman Marcus, to the painful memories of a Holocaust survivor, Shelter from the Texas Heat, takes the reader on an emotional roller coaster ride that even includes a stop at the State Fair of Texas.
Author Cara Wilson-Granat commented: “Shelter from the Texas Heat brings us up close to a time and place starting in the late fifties and sixties, written in finite detail about clothes, music, lifestyle, of an era long gone—like the last echo of President Kennedy’s moment of glory. The ending is as surprising as is the totally unique ride.”
Kornblit currently instructs advanced grammar at Emory's Professional Learning Programs in Atlanta, Georgia. For over a decade, she covered the arts for newspapers. She graduated from The University of Texas at Austin and holds a Master of Arts in Professional Writing degree from Kennesaw State University.
Bobbi Kornblit will appear at the Dallas Public Library Preston Royal Branch on Thursday, November 21, 2013, at 2:00 p.m.
5626 Royal Lane, Dallas, Texas 75229,
214-670-7128
Book talk: “The Kennedy Connection in Shelter from the Texas Heat”
http://dallaslibrary.evanced.info/eventcalendar.asp?df=list&libnum=20&nd=30&ongoing=1
Kornblit is a frequent speaker at book clubs and literary conferences. For a complete list of events, please visit www.BobbiKornblit.com.
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