THE WAITING ROOM by Christine Strevinsky

$13.99

 

Christine Strevinsky’s THE WAITING ROOM takes an unflinching look at aging–the pain and indignities and mainly the inconvenience of it all. But wait–she also touches on the surprising rewards.  This little collection, full of deep truth and, yes, elegant wit, should be read by everyone who’s old, on the way to old, or who plans to get there someday. It should also be read by the ones who love them.

–Mary. E. O’Dell, President of Green River Writers, Poems for the Man who Weighs Light, and other collections and novels

 

Christine Strevinsky faced the Nazis as a child partisan and the new world without English at eighteen. She’s welded, stuffed sausages, taught college English, and been run out of New Orleans by Katrina.  Now in her eighties, she faces an even bigger challenge. Using horror and humor, she takes us into her dominion and the world of a senior center . . . headstones ranged like teeth in uneven rows. In “Daily” we travel with a widow. She . . . pats the urn’s dome fondly and pads to the bathroom. We see other losses: Rita yells at Jesus  . . .who lives right above the headboard of her double bed. And in the end, Christine is in the check-in line, sans clothing, but it makes sense to her – come in naked, go out naked. Take this amazing journey intoThe Waiting Room. It will make you laugh. It will break your heart.

–E. Gail Chandler

 

 

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 THE WAITING ROOM

by Christine Strevinsky

$13.99, paper

978-1-63534-105-8

2017

Christine Strevinsky was born in Poland and grew up under the Nazi occupation. She immigrated to the USA at age eighteen; she spoke no English at the time. She has been a welder, a sausage stuffer, a mail inserter, as well as being engaged in various other occupations. After raising a family she became a freshman at the age of forty-five at the University of New Orleans where she ultimately obtained a master’s degree in English. She taught composition and creative writing at the Delgado Community College, also in New Orleans. She is the author of two novels, a chapbook, and has had poetry published in various literary journals (Louisiana Journal of College English, The Magnolia Revue, Voices in the Library, The Voice of the Forum, U.S 1 Worksheets, The Magnolia Quarterly and others), and had poems included in a couple of anthologies. She is retired and still writing. An octogenarian, she is the mother of three, grandmother of four, and a great-grandmother of three.

 

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