Thursday, April 2, 2020

I Just Came Here to Dance by Susan Malone


I Just Came Here to Dance 
by Susan Malone

I Just Came Here to Dance

Paula Anne Fairbanks understands all about the unexamined life. And she likes hers that way-until her world gets ripped smooth apart. 

Running from reality, Paula falls under the mythological yarns being spun on Diana Maclean's porch. 

Surely Paula's own choices aren't to blame for the summer of insanity she spends under the spells of Diana...who is, after all, known as the White Witch of Sociable, Texas. 

I JUST CAME HERE TO DANCE, a modern allegory, waltzes atop the line between the creative and the crazy, the sacred and the maligned. 

Through myths it weaves together the multi-layers of personal Self with that of the collective whole. 

And finally, Paula Anne and the townsfolk learn the simplest of truths: that the fire's ashes produce wisdom and courage, just as the stories say.

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