Published: April 18, 2012
Words: 90,918 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9780984689934

Short description

"Flowers," is a love story between two women during a time of war. Accompany Kathleen Moore as she journeys through childhood abuse, a lifetime of secrets and locked closet doors. From foster child living in Boston, to closeted Army physician wounded while serving in Iraq to family doctor in the rural town of Canfield, whatever her role and wherever her journey takes her, she never travels alone

Extended description

Flowers from Iraq, follows Kathleen Moore on her journey through childhood abuse, a lifetime of secrets and locked closet doors. Old comics found in a musty basement and a discarded copy of Alice in Wonderland, become her map to a world of fantasies.

From foster child living in Boston, to closeted Army physician wounded while serving in Iraq to family doctor in the rural town of Canfield, whatever her role and wherever her journey takes her, she never travels alone.

Kathleen meets and falls in love with Claire Hollander, a free-spirited adventurer and storyteller who challenges Kathleen to unlock the secret doors to her past.

A tale of opposites colliding and then reuniting, Flowers from Iraq balances humor and tragedy, the landscape of battle and the interior of the human mind. A drama that takes place during our own time of war, the story is a compelling reminder of the healing that comes through love and the human connection.

Tags

child abuse, lesbian fiction, women in the military, relationship fiction, lesbian love story, psychological novel, lesbian novel, female physician, in the closet

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Review by: Lilaine DuSud on June 08, 2012 :
Let's discover the journey of Dr. Kathleen Moore, MD, from a painful and solitary youth in Boston to an established and well respected Californian family medicine practice, surrounded by friends and love. Yes, it's a HEA ending kind of story. :)
The story begins when Kathleen comes to Los Angeles to study at UCLA, thanks to a four year scholarship earned by her excellent high school grades in Boston. We follow her through her college days, during which she meets several persons who'll become some of the most important ones in her life as friends, counselor and eventually surrogate family. After college, she engages in the Army’s Health Professions Scholarship Program to become a Doctor, both in Emergency and Family medicine. After many years studying and practicing for the Army, and one last three-year-long shock-trauma residency, she's deployed to Iraq in a Combat Support Hospital.
Seriously injured in the last days of this one-year-long assignment, she starts a long and arduous path to recovery, from both ancient, deeply buried and more recent emotional and physical traumas and the subsequent PTSD that she keeps hidden. Not without making another precious friend during her post-surgical physical therapy, Major Kathleen Moore is eventually honorably discharged, and Kathleen starts a new life in Canfield, CA, where she founds a family medicine physician position.
That's where she meets Claire, and once a totally closeted and lonely young woman she progressively opens up and allows a relationship to slowly develop, not without reticence concerning her getting out of the closet. But, who could resist this beautiful, lively, talented young woman, and a matchmaker-friend-Cupid's repeated interventions?

Sunny Alexander has magnificently depicted a flower, indeed, which from a tightly closed bud back in Iraq (and since childhood) tentatively, partially opens out then closes back to finally bloom in a full out blossom, and has all along explored the full palette of human emotions, and demonstrated the inestimable value of friendship and love.
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

Review by: your bookgeek on May 17, 2012 :
what a great, insightful and wonderfully well written book - this is one great adventure in the outer and the inner world. And I love the characters Sunny creates. well done! very well done!
BTW this book is - despite the bargain price - extremely well edited and proofread. Thanks to Sunny.
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

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