About A Brush With Mortality:
This character-driven novel encompasses psychological mystery and suspense in a genuinely unique manner with spoiler alerts every step of the journey. Themes related to sexuality, LGBTQ+, HIV/AIDS, hospice, infidelity, and a little kink are explored in a partially epistolary format, and in the subtle dialogue between Letty Mae and the characters with whom she interacts.
By all outward appearances, she’s just a typical woman going through menopause at the turn of the 21st century. Living in a stale and distant marriage, her grown kids living their own lives, there is a psychological and sexual itch she hasn’t felt in years that needs to be scratched. What are the secrets this Executive of a Hospice nonprofit keeps? Even she doesn’t know for sure –
Set in the San Francisco Bay Area in the year 2000, her journey explores meaning through death, erotic adventure, mystery, and those thoughts and actions we’d rather keep hidden. Letty Mae searches for what it means to be a female over 50 when the new century’s reality does not fit your worldview. Luckily, she has a guide in the form of an elite bisexual patriarch who must, in the end, die.
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Author Bio:
Caryl Hallberg (she, her) is a USA citizen living in Portugal. Her home in Tomar, Portugal is an eight-hundred-year-old stable located just below the Convento de Cristo castle and parklands. She shares her home with a Podengo named Rosey, and a blue point Siamese named Banda.
Her personal interests have to do with children, family, animals, health, agricultural sustainability, and higher levels of conscious living. She is herself a single parent of an amazing adult son and has been challenged by several serious illnesses. Caryl discovered through these experiences that there are ways of viewing reality that are more productive and evolved than others. In her role as a Pantheist Minister, Caryl approaches everything as containing divinity.
Caryl is the author of Rich Board, Poor Board, Your Diet Success Plan: Lower Your Weight and Elevate Your Health and Happiness, and the forthcoming book, Navigating to Joy: 11 Steps Mapping Your Personal Path to Fulfillment.
With the launch of her new novel, A Brush With Mortality, Caryl is offering her first work of literary fiction under her own name.
She has degrees in landscaping, psychology, visual arts, and mythology. She particularly loves exploring ritual-based oral traditions, dragons, witchcraft, and steampunk.
Caryl is a certified strategic life coach specialized in Emotional Intelligence, and a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Practitioner, transforming dysfunctional emotions and behaviors to produce happier, more fulfilling daily outcomes. Through her practice DogWatch Navigation, Caryl offers these services as well as developmental editing and coaching for writers.