A Circle of Sabbaths
Susan, reluctant and sullen, is forced to light Sabbath candles at her grandparent’s house.
Book Summary
A Circle of Sabbaths
Susan, reluctant and sullen, is forced to light Sabbath candles at her grandparent’s house. She then has to listen as her grandmother speaks to her of ancestors, including the courageous woman she is named for. Her interest in the people in the sepia pictures she’s shown blossoms. Gradually the lighting of Sabbath candles grows from a chore to a symbol of Sabbath, an honoring of her heritage.
She carries this heritage with her through the tumultuous 1960s and a marriage that fails. Forgotten for a while, Susan finds it again after her mother’s death.
Years later her teenage granddaughter, reluctant and sullen, will be forced to learn from Susan the heritage and tradition of her family.
What readers say about the book🧐
this is not a mystery book as many of Susan’s are this one is a love story. for anyone who had wonderful memories of their grandmother, this will bring them back to you. Although these are specific memories to one person, they will bring back memories to all people of the love and kindness and sweetness of the grandmother and easy, but keep the tissue box handy
Robin krasny
About the Author
Susan L. Solomon
Formerly a Manhattan entertainment attorney and a contributing editor to the quarterly art magazine SunStorm Fine Art, Susan Lynn Solomon now lives in Niagara Falls, New York, the setting of many of her stories.
Since 2007 her short stories have appeared in a number of literary journals. These stories include, Abigail Bender (awarded an Honorable Mention in a short romance competition), Ginger Man, Elvira, The Memory Tree, Going Home, Reunion, Yesterday’s Wings, Smoker’s Lament, Kaddish, and Sabbath (nominated for the 2013 Best of the Net). A collection of her short stories, Voices In My Head, has been released by Solstice Publishing.
Susan Solomon is also the author of the Emlyn Goode Mysteries. A finalist in M&M’s Chanticleer’s Mystery & Mayhem Novel Contest, and a finalist for the 2016 Book Excellence Award, her first Emlyn Goode Mystery novel, The Magic of Murder, has received rave reviews, as has the novelette, Bella Vita, and the novel, Dead Again, which is a finalist for the 2017 McGrath House Indie Book of the Year Award. In the latest Emlyn Goode Mystery novelette, The Day the Music Died, Ms. Solomon once again demonstrates that murder can have sense of humor.
For more, see her website at www.susanlynnsolomon.com
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Susan, reluctant and sullen, is forced to light Sabbath candles at her grandparent’s house.