CALL ME ZELDA, is a private story that is meant only for Anna. Anna is a private nurse who is assigned to care for Zelda. Little did they know that they would bond together. They both try and learn how to deal with their own and each other's tragic lives.
Anna is dealing with the death of her husband and her child. Zelda, with depression and her life with Scott Fitzgerald.
Erika Robuck's story had me riveted. The way that she has entwined their two lives made me feel compassion for both of these women.
Erika's description of how a person deals with depression is incredible. I feel that she had to do a lot of research on the Fitzgeralds, and it does pay off. This book brings out all different emotions in the reader. I don't know how anyone could read this book and not feel sorry for anyone who is or has gone though different tragic situations that life can throw at you.
I am not sure how much of this is fact and how much is fiction. But the way that Erika wrote this book, I feel it is much more fact.
I give CALL ME ZELDA two thumbs up. If you like reading stories about historical people, you will love this book. I usually don't care for historical books, but I was drawn into this one from page one.
Everything in the ward seemed different now, and I no
longer felt its calming presence. The Fitzgeralds stirred
something in me that had been dormant for a long time, and I
was not prepared to face it....
From New York to Paris, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald reigned
as king and queen of the Jazz Age, seeming to float on
champagne bubbles above the mundane cares of the world. But
to those who truly knew them, the endless parties were only
a distraction from their inner turmoil, and from a love that
united them with a scorching intensity.
When Zelda is committed to a Baltimore psychiatric clinic in
1932, vacillating between lucidity and madness in her
struggle to forge an identity separate from her husband, the
famous writer, she finds a sympathetic friend in her nurse,
Anna Howard. Held captive by her own tragic past, Anna is
increasingly drawn into the Fitzgeraldsβ tumultuous
relationship. As she becomes privy to Zeldaβs most intimate
confessions, written in a secret memoir meant only for her,
Anna begins to wonder which Fitzgerald is the true
genius. But in taking ever greater emotional risks to
save Zelda, Anna may end up paying a far higher price than
she intended....
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