About Shelter of the Monument by Yvonne deSousa:
Sometimes the wrong person says the right thing, and it makes all the difference.
In this coming-of-age memoir we meet Richard, a handsome, charming, mischievous, great guy with a fondness for the 1980s party drug of choice, cocaine. Yvonne is 11 years younger, awkward, terrified of her own shadow and even more frightened by the idea of disappointing anyone in her life.
Their attraction makes no sense.
Despite obstacles beyond their control, they are exactly what each other is drawn to as they set about doing the best they can, in all four seasons of their beautiful, one season town, Provincetown, MA. Their connection remains the one thing that can save Yvonne from herself, even while Richard struggles under the weight of his own self-imposed demons.
What they develop is a relationship that unbeknownst to both of them, would last a lifetime and change Yvonne in ways she never thought possible.
They were not supposed to be together.
Yet, they refused to stay apart.
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Author Bio:
Yvonne deSousa was born and raised in Provincetown and is a 1987 graduate of the now defunct, Provincetown High School. She has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Massachusetts in Boston. After college, she returned to Provincetown and worked for the Provincetown Public Library and the Provincetown Recreation Department and volunteered for Independence House, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping those experiencing domestic violence. This led to a career working with crime victims for the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office.
After several years, when she began to miss life on Cape Cod, she returned to the area and worked as an administrative assistant in a periodontal office. When she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, she found a healing outlet in writing about her life with MS in an amusing way. She eventually published the well-reviewed, MS Madness! A “Giggle More, Cry Less’ Story of Multiple Sclerosis and started a medical humor blog that details the idiosyncrasies of life with a chronic illness and later, surviving a breast cancer diagnosis and its treatment. Yvonne believes that “giggles are good for you” and enjoys sharing her inner humorist.
Her writing has also appeared in 2 of the Chicken Soup for the Soul editions, Finding Your Faith and Listening to Your Dreams, as well as the 3 Something on Our Minds anthologies, the Cape Cod Times, and 5 of the Provincetown Banner’s yearly Portuguese Festival Booklets. Her latest book, a coming-of-age memoir set in her beloved hometown, Shelter of the Monument: A Provincetown Love Story was released by Black Rose Writing on 11/16/23 and has won the Literary Titan Silver Award and was a runner-up for memoir in and Indie Author Project Awards for 2024.