Om denne e-bog
The novel takes the reader on a searing journey that intimately portrays the lives of seven women. A must-read, it will change the way we view secrets, what we think of them and ultimately, how we address them, even the women who keep them.
Story summary
The day turns freezing and dark, a heinous crime occurs and abandonment ensues. It is the last day of school for a twelve-year-old girl named Christine in 1994 in Toronto, Canada.
Twenty-one years later, she finally realizes that her silence about the meaning of her other name, which her mother gave to her on her death bed, threatens her survival. She has formed a compromise through her new name, Lena, to survive the events of her childhood.
Accompanied by her husband, she takes the trip of her life to a paradisaical landscape, Jamaica, where she meets a woman who knows about compromising. Christine discovers that both a woman's compromise and her retraction of that compromise can be not only courageous but also dazzlingly infelicitous.
That infelicity is found in the name of a seventy-four-year-old Jamaican woman who now calls herself Dell-Dell.
Justification
In Canada and Jamaica, the silent women of What’s in a Name can no longer remain so. In this epic tale that details each woman’s shocking justification for her own silence, be mesmerized when one of them unbridles “herself with her secret for some breaking news of her own.”
Mystery
Each woman’s name is like the cover art that wraps to the back of the book, in that what each is rooted in could be “the effect of breeze having manipulated leaves into form; leaves having manipulated light with equal savvy.”
The unspeakable
The women have spoken, and they must be heard. But for one of them, Dell-Dell, speaking by itself is not enough, nor is her name, so she commits an unspeakable act to solidify her new name. She reminds us that every woman knows her own sorrows.
Om forfatteren
Garie McIntosh is a literary fiction writer and an educational content creator. He started out in administration in the fields of healthcare, project management and database development. Since 2016, he has been working to further develop himself as a fiction writer while developing and creating educational content through his advanced linguistic and grammatical skills. You can find out more about him via gariemcintosh.com, where he shares the meaningful wins throughout his evolution and which is also a hub of both insightful and educational content.
