Arona Henderson, a Canadian born author, attended McGill
University and the University of British Columbia. She received her
medical degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.
After a forty-year career as a beloved family practitioner, Arona
faced her own devastating illness. Out of her resolve to survive
emerged a story about courage, a compelling tale of a young Jewish
girl, Caasi Lichman, born in Montreal. "Lilacs in the Snow"
chronicles Caasi s passage from desolate childhood to impetuous
adolescence to a shaken, yet solid adulthood, and is intertwined
with the similarly volatile political, socio-economic, and racial
climate of the mid-twentieth century.
The story begins when an adult Caasi returns to Montreal and
visits her estranged father. The encounter rekindles fragments of
her childhood chaos, and she takes the reader on a gripping journey
through the world of her collected memories, which are illuminated
by flashes of sensitivity, poignancy, budding sensuality,
resilience, humor, and abiding love. The complexity of human
relationships is portrayed with revealing conviction and secured at
the point where truth and imagination collide. In Caasi s display
of moral fortitude, we find an example of human excellence that can
be a source of inspiration to all readers and provide hope for
better tomorrows. Long after the book is closed, your mind and
heart will linger in its powerful hold.
About the Author:
During the years of her office medical practice and staff physician
at Hoag Memorial Hospital, Newport Beach, California, Arona
Henderson s poetry was published in small presses: "Alura
Quarterly" and " up against the wall, mother ." She authored
articles and stories for "Medical Economics" and "Cortlandt Forum."
These publications received acclaim from fellow physicians
worldwide and "Medical Economics" awarded her a certificate of
merit for one of her stories. In spite of the demands on her time,
she wrote a column titled "Woman to Woman Medicine" for "Orange
County Media," a monthly publication with a circulation of 120,000.
Her style of professionalism and humor in the chosen topics was a
favorable method of reaching a wide range of women who were
otherwise reluctant to seek professional medical care.
Arona lectured on issues of adolescent medicine to women s
groups to help improve relationships between mothers and daughters.
She was dedicated to the physical and emotional health of young
individuals and undertook a physician consultant position at an
inpatient adolescent mental health facility. She served as a
student health doctor at the University of California, Irvine and a
teacher of family practice techniques to the medical school
students at the University of California, Irvine Medical
School.
Arona currently resides with her husband James in Blaine,
Washington, close to the Canadian border.
General
Imprint: |
Ccb Publishing
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
July 2011 |
First published: |
July 2011 |
Authors: |
A. K. Henderson
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
350 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-926918-70-9 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
LSN: |
1-926918-70-3 |
Barcode: |
9781926918709 |
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