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Dancing         in the              Wind         by  M.J. Brett
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	ISBN    978-09748869-6-1
	When a family decides it's time to send 92-year-old Granny to a retirement home, "for her own good," of course, feisty Martha Sidony fights back.        In frustration, she tells her brood, "I'm neither incompetent, nor incontinent, and I can take care of myself, thank you very much!"       But the younger family members don't understand her little ideosyncracies--like dancing in the wind, hoarding telephones, and driving on the high side of the road. Then, there is also the matter of her falling once in awhile.      While they send her belongings to Goodwill, often over her objections, Martha finds an old Clorox shipping box that yields case studies from forty years of her teaching on two continents. Remembering her students, Gran finds her advice to her "kidlets" from long ago just might help demonstrate her independence now.       Her life lessons from the old box serve to keep her out of their way, which the family claims is "necessary," but they also buy her time and ammunition to lobby for some choice in the matter. They even bring her unlikely allies in her campaign to stay free.      Can Granny hold out long enough to make a difference in her family's lives and stave off the problems of her pierced and tatooed great-grandaughter?       Sooner than anyone believes, it will be time for Gran's last stand, when she feels she must step in to save others.   If you'd like study and discussion questions for your book club,  Contact the Author.

	Letters from readers:
	"Your latest story seems so close to what our family is going through right now. We really don't know how to be helpful to our elderly parents, and still deal with the day-to-day pressures of our own jobs and growing children. Your 'Granny' is courageous and wise in this dilemma, and maybe we can learn from her. It helps to see life from the point of view of this hot-shot old lady."  Sara H.      "Ten years ago, I never dreamed I'd be faced with having to help my parents. They both seemed so lively and independent. A sudden accident changed all our lives forever. Though we  try, we can't seem to give them the independence they want, while trying to keep our own lives going. You seem to keep "touching a nerve" for your readers, bringing them stories in which they can see their own images. With each of your novels, I always feel like you are writing just to me." Holly S.

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