Never Forever

Description of new work

SYNOPSIS
Adalet’s cursed marriage ended 30 years ago, and today American son Nuri and wife Lee fly to Istanbul to bury her. Writer Lee must keep a promise. “I’m not important but my survivor’s story is,” Adalet pled; and now, as Lee examines a life cast against revolution from Ottoman Empire to Turkish Republic, Adalet’s spirit reaches into past and present, revealing a progressive woman caught in a war-torn love saga that moves all across Thrace and Anatolia. Throughout the 34 years of her fateful tie to handsome Burhan the blacksmith’s son, Adalet gives up her legacy four times and confronts deception, desertion, vice, jealousy, rejection and grief as she courageously works her way towards becoming the strong friend with inner peace as Lee remembers her.

Selected Works

a NOVEL based on an oral biography of a Turkish woman of the past century placed in a historical frame
Never Forever
Unpublished, with The Pratt Literary Group
Memoir
Nothing but Time
Spiritual strength from moving, insightful, yet humorous stories of the people and experiences in Judy's life.
Fiction and Nonfiction, Children Ages 6-12
Some of My Ancestors Are Ottomans and Turks
An American grandson of a Turkish immigrant learns about his Turkish and Ottoman heritage.
Poetry
Mud River
“Unforced and authentic, which is pretty rare today.”
–-William Packard, NYQ Review