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Waiting for the Fall

Stories by Rose Ann Findlen

This debut collection of nineteen interconnected stories follows the Woodstock generation—especially women—coming of age in the turbulent 1960s. With insight and wisdom, Rose Ann Findlen explores social class, American landscapes, and the shifting hopes and fears of her characters across decades. Their pleasure, pain, resilience, and determination to love fully despite loss will resonate with baby boomers and the children trying to understand them.

This book is full of surprises. It has celebration, it has sadness.

—Reader review on Amazon

Description

The nineteen interconnected stories in this debut collection are about the Woodstock generation and the people, particularly the women, who came of age in the tumultuous 1960s. With wisdom and insight, Rose Ann Findlen examines social class, American landscapes, and the hopes and fears of her characters through the decades. Their pleasure and pain, and above all their persistence in the face of loss and disillusionment, and their drive to love and to live fully regardless of what comes, will bring nostalgia and sometimes heartache to all baby boomers, and perhaps also to the children who seek to understand them better.

Product Details

PublishedOctober 14, 2021
ImprintCalumet Editions
LanguageEnglish
Print length152
ISBN-13978-1950743605
Dimensions6 x 0.38 x 9 inches

Both my wife and I have read and been moved by these tightly written stories. Each resonates for those of who have lived through our parents’, children’s and relative’s traumas, resistance to and acceptance of the inevitable human experience: the deterioration and loss of loved ones, the pains of disease, decay and death, or the often awfulness of finding a way through that byzantine and difficult transition from home to institutionalized assisted living, such as it is in an America controlled by insurance companies and government bureaucracy. Ms Findlen clearly infuses her own life experiences into her insights, characters and story lines as she invites us to understand aging in all its confusions and complexities.

—John Howard, verified review on Amazon

Some of Findlen’s stories were chilling to me, as I have already lived through with my Grandparents over the last 15 years what many Baby Boomers are now facing with their parents today…and that are evidenced in Waiting for the Fall! Some of the stories in “Waiting” poignant . . . exactly what I faced as I helped my Grandparents weather the winter of their lives. Looking back I was glad and happy to have been there for them, however heartbreaking.

—David W. Jackson, verified review on Amazon

This book is full of surprises. It has celebration, it has sadness. It has a smart, unflinching narrator. Anyone who’s getting older—and that’s all of us—should buy this book.

—Reader, verified review on Amazon

This book of wonderful stories captures the difficulty and beauty of aging. It also paints clear pictures of both long-term marriage and later-in-life sibling relationships. Findlen’s point of view is a welcome addition to contemporary literature.

—Laurie Friedman, verified review on Amazon