Mother

New edition

By: Janys Nighthawk

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins

Publisher's summary

Embarking on motherhood, Bridget enjoys the role as both mother and stepmother while dancing through the Disco years, divorce, marriage, becoming lesbian identified, and partying in the Eighties. Always the rebel, she becomes involved with the Free Clinic in West Hollywood during the AIDS epidemic and the election of the first all-gay city council in West Hollywood. But again, love gets the better of her. Her lover insists they move. Bridget returns to college and gets her degree. While there, she finds her niche in the New Age movement of the ‘90s. She gains friends while still living with her significant other and forging a family. That’s why it’s a total shock when her lover kicks her out of the house right after her daughter, Jessica, returns home. This is a fictionalized autobiography. In the new edition, long scenes have been pared for smoother reading. Review of 1st edition by “ren” of Amazon.com "This novel follows Bridget Collins from Maiden to Mother as it opens with her having married her boyfriend John and bearing his child. A little girl is born and named Jessica. John doesn't hide his disappointment that it is not a son and it is not long before Bridget and John are divorced. Over the next eighteen years we see Bridget marry again, become a step mother then a widow. She then starts a new kind of life in a lesbian relationship that spans many years. In those years she loses custody of Jessica to John and his second wife, who are aided in their legal quest for Jessica by Bridget's parents -- as they, being all about appearances can’t be there for -- nor approve of their now lesbian daughter. This takes place in the dim years of homophobia and discrimination in our society. Bridget and her new female partner Patty leave Utah for California where the ping pong of desire for constantly changing sexual partners transitions into a more stable commitment. Bridget finds Buddhism long enough to raise her life force energy through the chakras into a higher vibe, but not quickly enough to be readily discernable so she drops her Buddhist endeavors. Then complications arise due to another lesbian couple who strain Bridget and Patty's relationship causing them to return to Utah where it begins to unravel. Bridget is evolving rapidly now and seeking truth while Patty declines into scheming and small-minded dishonesty. Also Bridget is now finding her way toward more education and is drawn to Shamanism through one of her University teachers. This stage of her life unfolds into vision quests and power animal encounters that change the tone of Bridget's life entirely as she begins to understand that she is at the center of her sought after acceptance and healing. Not surprisingly at this juncture (the very moment of her emancipation from John and his wife) Jessica returns to Bridget. Now with Mother and daughter together again they begin to mend the past and to chart and follow their own uniquely chosen new paths."