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St. Martin's Press
February 2015
On Sale: January 27, 2015
ISBN: 1250047714
EAN: 9781250047717
Kindle: B00LKRSBM6
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Non-Fiction Memoir
We all, as children, had our imaginary friends and monsters in the closet. But for Suzan Saxman, those friends and monsters didnβt go awayβand they werenβt imaginary. From an early age, Suzan knew instinctively that she had to hide her true self. She couldnβt talk about the specters who haunted her, waking and dreaming. In bed with a childhood fever, winged beings guarded her; bullied and friendless at school, she ate lunch silently under the steps of St. Theresaβs with the ghost of a nun; paralyzed with fear, she woke each night to see a man with no eyes, watching her; and she kept watch at the window, every day, while her real father was at work and Steve, her other father, was with her mother. It was the 1960s in suburban Staten Island and she tried to hide it allβto silence the spirits, ghosts and her own developing abilities to tap into peopleβs futures. She tried to be a daughter her mother could love. Now, with Perdita Finn, Suzan tells the story of her journey in The Reluctant Psychic, and tries to make sense of her motherβs own personal buried secrets that were never acknowledged. She tells of the joy and terror in seeing things others couldnβt and understanding what no one else expectedβand the loneliness and sadness of possessing a tremendous gift. Through powerful readings of othersβ destinies interwoven with compelling narrative, a reluctant psychic emerges into the light.
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