Sheila Paris Klein

In the Cave of Memory

   "Let's go." Agnes urges Ted. "I am not going to give birth in this cave." But she is going to be wrong. Within minutes, twins Truman and Lincoln are born into the accomplished, irreverent Bennett family and carried out of the cave by their triumphant parents.

   Six years later, Agnes meets a stranger on a train, has an affair with him and brings her new sexual expertise home to unsuspecting Ted  as they both grapple with a devastating loss. The indelible stories of a deaf girl, a housekeeper with mystical talents, an Orthodox rabbi, a lounge singer and a missing boy are braided together in this compelling, wildly comic novel of love, loss and rescue.

   Sheila Paris Klein is a published poet and has been writing both fiction and non-fiction for 20 years.  Although her characters include experts in geology, art, mysticism, psychology and rabbinic study, she is a novice at all of these. So much for writing what one knows. She travels extensively, writing from all over the world  and relies on her large family for love, support, encouragement and chocolate. She makes her home in Nevada.  

   Her novel is available at www.amazon.com